Recommended memoirs for your beach book list, from an Italian idyll to a childhood spent trying to be black.
By Salon staff Jun 9, 2009
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Does female confessional journalism really harm women?
By Amanda Fortini
July 3, 2009
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The author of "The Liars' Club" on what she'd like to find in her book bag.
June 5, 2009
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Screw Gymboree and breast-feeding! New confessional memoirs by Ayelet Waldman and Michael Lewis join an ever-growing genre lashing out at our expectations for today's mommies and daddies.
By Rebecca Traister
May 6, 2009
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So you thought your parents were weird. Two remarkable memoirs about partner swapping, revolutionary politics and other unorthodox family tales.
By Andrew O'Hehir
March 31, 2009
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The British actor, comedian and professional troublemaker talks about political comedy, dressing up as Osama bin Laden, and his new "Booky Wook."
By Joy Press
March 13, 2009
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Herman Rosenblat's concentration-camp romance duped Oprah, among many others. Why are we so eager to put a happy ending on a tragedy?
By Lev Raphael
January 7, 2009
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Help her, Obi-Wan! Carrie Fisher's memoir of her life as a "Star Wars" icon and poster child for rehab and mental illness will likely make you laugh -- and cry.
By Rebecca Traister
December 3, 2008
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Two gripping memoirs explore the guilt and confusion left behind when a relative kills himself.
By Laura Miller
October 7, 2008
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Juliana Hatfield talks about her latest -- and possibly finest -- record, her frank new memoir, and life after being a Gen X It Girl
By Kerry Lauerman
September 29, 2008
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Novelist Elizabeth McCracken on losing her first son.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
September 24, 2008
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I gave up everything to take care of my spouse after he suffered a brain injury. But would I also lose myself?
By Alix Kates Shulman
September 17, 2008
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She was unforgettable in Spike Lee's "When the Levees Broke." Now Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc explains what the storm took away -- and never could.
By Pasha Malla
August 27, 2008
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The veteran newspaperman discusses his alternately horrifying and uplifting memoir about the journey from crackhead to crack New York Times reporter.
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 8, 2008
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Andrew O'Hehir interviews the writer about his memoir, drug addiction and memory.
August 8, 2008
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I've diagnosed myself with heart attacks, blood poisoning, meningitis and multiple sclerosis. Turns out, what I had was hypochondria.
By Jennifer Traig
June 21, 2008
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True confessions: From a trek through the American West to a life filled with music, these memoirs will whisk you away.
By Salon staff
June 9, 2008
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The question isn't why a blogger like Emily Gould has the spotlight -- it's why other women don't.
By Rebecca Traister
May 29, 2008
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In her new memoir, "Audition," the iconic television journalist plumbs the troubled childhood and love life of her ultimate subject -- herself.
By Rebecca Traister
May 6, 2008
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Suze Rotolo, the musician's first muse, has written an entertaining memoir about their love affair that is also a remarkable portrait of living and making art in the 1960s.
By Stephanie Zacharek
April 26, 2008
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After testing positive for the "breast cancer gene," "Gilmore Girls" writer Jessica Queller made a radical choice -- a preventive double mastectomy.
By Corrie Pikul
April 2, 2008
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In light of recent scandals, we will now require arrest records and stool samples from all autobiographers. And can someone fact-check the Gospels?
By Louis Bayard
March 7, 2008
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After a lifetime of competing with his father, writer David Shields has had enough. But the aged patriarch remains "cussedly, maddeningly alive."
By Louis Bayard
March 4, 2008
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David Sheff recounts how he lost his son to meth and the long, agonizing struggle to get him back.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
March 1, 2008
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I have two kids to raise, a dating scene to navigate, and a rubber vagina in my drawer. Bachelorhood is off to a rough start.
By Trey Ellis
February 7, 2008
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Summer reading: Mary Karr recommends
The worst parents in the world
They f*** you up, your mum and dad
Sex, anarchy and Russell Brand
The Holocaust memoir so heartwarming it had to be fake
Princess Leia's wild, bipolar adventures
A suicide in the family
Her so-called music career 
My husband, the invalid
Hope floats
The devil and David Carr
Sick in the head
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Another pretty face of a generation
Barbara Walters interviews Barbara Walters
Tangled up in Dylan
To cut my breasts off, or not to cut my breasts off ...
Attention, all you memoir fabulists!
Die, Daddy, die!
My beautiful, drug-addicted boy
How does a single father ever get laid?
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