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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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From an imaginary history of Alaskan Jews to a compelling glimpse of the CIA, we pick the 10 most pleasurable reading experiences of the year.
By Laura Miller
December 12, 2007
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The legendary guitarist's autobiography is an exhausting, but ultimately moving, journey through a dazed life.
By Gary Kamiya
October 31, 2007
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After years of enforced silence, Valerie Plame Wilson finally tells all -- except for the stuff the CIA blacked out.
By Rebecca Traister
October 24, 2007
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The 2008 presidential contenders have written way too many books. A readers guide to 18 of them, the Good, the Bad and the Cosmic.
By Salon staff
October 18, 2007
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His personal journals unveil the glory and corruption of postwar presidents with emotional truth and power. Alas, the age of the great historian is over.
By Sidney Blumenthal
October 18, 2007
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Novelist, memoirist, activist, fantasist -- this entry from "The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors" takes you on a guided tour of the celebrated writer's long literary career.
By Laura Morgan Green
October 12, 2007
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Political columnist Katha Pollitt has been vilified for airing her romantic dirty laundry. What's wrong with serious women writers exposing their soft underbellies to the world?
By Rebecca Traister
September 26, 2007
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A writer sifts through the wreckage of her schizophrenic sister's short life. Can she penetrate the helter-skelter chaos to understand what was going on in her mind?
By Emily Weinstein
August 24, 2007
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Two riveting books look at methamphetamines past and present -- from miracle cure to today's drug scourge -- and why sleep-deprived, sex-obsessed America craves crank.
By Elizabeth Hand
August 16, 2007
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A posthumous memoir from murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya gives readers a glimpse of the dark side of post-Soviet Russia.
By Alexander Nazaryan
July 2, 2007
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Biographer Meryle Secrest shares her secrets: Don't fall in love with Stephen Sondheim, and watch out for Salvador Dali's hit men.
By Rachel Aviv
June 27, 2007
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Rupert Everett's autobiography serves up plenty of Hollywood dish -- but even the the tastiest bits can't cover the bitterness of a fading career.
By Sean Kennedy
February 1, 2007
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Vidal's second memoir merely retells the stories we already know from his enormous -- and potentially irrelevant -- body of work.
By Allen Barra
January 3, 2007
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Salon Book Award winner Daniel Mendelsohn discusses his search for missing relatives, the "overfamiliarity" of the Holocaust, and why we should listen to our elders.
By Andrew O'Hehir
December 14, 2006
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In a heroic memoir, Donald Antrim explores his relationship with his late mother -- a troubled alcoholic he couldn't live with, or without.
By Ian Chang
August 15, 2006
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Crackling good writer and "Sleepless in Seattle" director Nora Ephron gets serious about sagging necks and wrinkles, transforming her family life into fiction, and why her movies aren't as stupid or schmaltzy as people say.
By Rebecca Traister
August 8, 2006
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Cartoonist Alison Bechdel, of "Dykes to Watch Out For" fame, has created a heart-stopping graphic memoir revealing her family secrets.
By Douglas Wolk
June 5, 2006
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I wrote a memoir about life with the world's worst dog. But before my masterpiece hit the shelves, a pooch named Marley stole my thunder.
By Lee Harrington
May 2, 2006
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A disinherited grandchild of the man who created Sweet'N Low dissects his screwy family -- and the history of fake sugar -- in a winning new book.
By Christine Smallwood
April 13, 2006
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?
Salon Book Awards 2007
Clapton is not God
Fair Plame
All the candidates' books
Arthur M. Schlesinger's playbill for the American century
Salon's guide to Nobel winner Doris Lessing
The feminist who made me blush
"Relative Stranger"
In meth we trust
"A Russian Diary"
The lives of others
Sad, but true, Hollywood story
Too much Gore
Finding "The Lost"
Life goes on
What's so damn great about aging?
"Fun Home"
Pooper scooper
The sweetest dream
War Room
Broadsheet
How the World Works