The stories we tell about ourselves.

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• A Brief History of Memoir-Bashing It's almost as old as the memoir itself.
  Ben Yagoda March 30, 2007
  
• For Whom the Memoir Tolls How to write about the dead.
  Allen Shawn March 29, 2007
  
• Ishmael Beah's A Long Way Gone Rehabilitating child soldiers.
  Elizabeth Rubin March 29, 2007
  
• Just Screw It How I told my family I was writing about our feud over the Sweet'N Low fortune.
  Rich Cohen March 28, 2007
  
• Collateral Damage How I lost a friend and ex-lover by writing about him.
  Edmund White March 28, 2007
  
• Momma's Boy How I wrote a memoir about the mother I once hated.
  John Dickerson March 28, 2007
  
• Inside Autism What two memoirs can tell us about the disease du jour.
  Ann Hulbert March 28, 2007
  
• Ivory-Tower Ambassador The studying, and selling, of America.
  Christopher Benfey March 28, 2007
  
• In a Land Far, Far Away How I wrote a memoir about my father.
  Danielle Trussoni March 28, 2007
  
• Publish, Then Flee How to tell your family you're writing about them.
  Sean Wilsey March 28, 2007
  
• Road to Nowhere My life as a victim of Hurricane Katrina and the ineffectual Road Home program.
  Blake Bailey March 27, 2007
  
• When Irish Tongues Are Talking How I told my colleagues, family, and former countrymen I was writing about them.
  Frank McCourt March 27, 2007
  
• All About Me? The state of the modern memoir.
  March 27, 2007
  
• The Woman Warrior at 30 Maxine Hong Kingston's secrets and lies.
  Jess Row March 27, 2007
  
• Autobiography and Poetry Defending the impulse to "confess."
  Meghan O'Rourke March 27, 2007
  
• What the Little Old Ladies Feel How I told my mother about my memoir.
  Alison Bechdel March 27, 2007
  
• The Liar's Club How I told my friends I was writing about my childhood—and what they said in return.
  Mary Karr March 27, 2007