Biography & Autobiography

"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn

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  Reality Hunger: The Six Books of Karl Ove Knausgaard, Part III

  Part 3 of a 3-Part Series

  William PierceApr 24, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Fiction

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  Reality Hunger: The Six Books of Karl Ove Knausgaard, Part II

  Part 2 of a 3-Part Series

  William PierceApr 23, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Fiction

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  Reality Hunger: The Six Books of Karl Ove Knausgaard, Part I

  Part 1 of a 3-Part Series

  William PierceApr 22, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Fiction

• Around the World (or Part of It) with Sarah Thornton: 33 Artists in 3 Acts

  Sarah Thornton's "33 Artists in 3 Acts" introduces readers to dozens of artists and a few curators operating at the upper echelons of the art business.

  Annie BuckleyApr 15, 2015

  • Art & Architecture

  • Biography & Autobiography

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  Minding Other People’s Business: On Dawn Powell

  Powell had bad luck, and she received less attention than her male colleagues, but throughout it all, she kept writing.

  Victoria PattersonApr 14, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Fiction

• Finding Susan

  Daniel Schreiber’s "Susan Sontag," the first biography published since her death, offers an opportunity to reassess how we approach the last great public intellectual.

  Amanda DeMarcoMar 10, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

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  An African American Life?

  “However magesterially this biography conventionalizes Brown’s life, it does so at some potential cost to Brown’s anomalousness.”

  Jordan Alexander SteinFeb 12, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Literary Criticism

• Richard Pryor’s Comedy of Fear

  A man alone on a stage with just his microphone, his talent, and his demons for company.

  Shehryar FazliFeb 9, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

• Bio-Riffing on Freud

  Sometimes smoking a cigar is just smoking a cigar.

  Richard H. ArmstrongJan 28, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

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  Penelope Fitzgerald Was Here: An Appreciation

  "Penelope Fitzgerald’s story was both permission and company; it was okay if I too had to start late and move slowly as a writer."

  Courtney CookJan 23, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Fiction

• Late Start, Spectacular Finish: The Life of Penelope Fitzgerald

  For Fitzgerald, who grew up in a literary household and who was a brilliant student at Oxford, barge penury was not supposed to be in the cards.

  Priyanka KumarJan 21, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Fiction

• The Alien and the Intimate: The Writing of Ian Curtis, Joy Division’s Poet-Frontman

  The Writing of Ian Curtis, Joy Division’s Poet-Frontman.

  Esther YiJan 5, 2015

  • Biography & Autobiography

  • Music