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Fathers & Farewells | Memoir
In his final memoir column, Derek Sanderson focuses on fatherhood and finding one's way.
Choose Your Own Adventure | Memoir
Books about the journey to self-discovery dominate this month's memoir column.
Embracing Life | Memoir
This month’s memoirs focus on death and transformation. They each have lessons to teach about embracing life, while we still have it.
Reconciling Histories, Unraveling Mysteries | Memoir
Family relationships and Russia's traumatic history are the subjects of this month's memoir column.
LJ Talks to Daniel Mendelsohn
Author and critic Daniel Mendelsohn’s literary memoir An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and an Epic tells at least two stories. At 81, Mendelsohn’s father, a retired research scientist, decided to sit in on his literature professor son’s Odyssey seminar at Bard College. After that, the father-son duo retraced Odysseus’s route on a Mediterranean sea cruise.
Families & Addiction, Philosophers, Two Debuts, & Joyce Maynard | Memoir
A grab-bag of titles about drug addiction, prevailing against all odds, almost forgotten ancestors, a love story cut short, and a Renaissance philosopher.
4 Family Stories, 1 Autism Experience | Memoir
LJ columnist Derek looks at three family memoirs and one autism memoir; plus bonus coverage of a memoir by Kelly Grey Carlisle
Family Ties and a Rock and Roll Guy | Memoir
This month's memoir picks are about families and, particularly, fathers and sons.
Travels & Translations | Memoir
This month's column has two memoirs in translation and two by Americans who take to the road
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