Biography & Memoir

11+ hour, 13+ min ago   (504+ words) The writer Nelson Algren used to drink in the apartment where I grew up, joining other writers and pals of my parents in regular gatherings, filling the living room with conversations, cigarette and cigar smoke and the clinking of ice…...

48+ min ago   (114+ words) The residence of Hannah More, Barley Wood, near Wrington (Image: W.J. Palmer after L.M.W.) How Somerset helped shape America The stories and legends of Somerset’s statues The novelist who founded the forerunners of today’s Metropolitan Police. Although no radical, she was nevertheless…...

4+ hour, 16+ min ago   (945+ words) A handful of sentences can hold a lifetime of feeling. We explore how writing micro-memoirs can help us reflect on the past, embrace complexity, and reconnect with our authentic selves “Good girls prove their virtue by getting rid of themselves....

8+ hour, 48+ min ago   (254+ words) A new irrigation project threatens to displace both cheetahs and humans in Kuno Why do anti-reservation ideologues love the creamy layer so much? CBI names Uddhav, Aaditya Thackeray in Sushant Singh Rajput’s former manager death case ‘Disappeared’: In Bengal, Muslims…...

19+ hour, 51+ min ago   (119+ words) Image by Roxana Kenjeeva last night I had a small problem with my heart it kept beating doctor inside someone else no doctor I don’t know this other person no I don’t know what my heart wants who knows what…...

10+ hour, 18+ min ago   (505+ words) Today we’d like to introduce you to Jessy Segovia. Hi Jessy, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your…...

15+ hour, 43+ min ago   (61+ words) | WLIW-FM WLIW Description: Cheyenne author Tommy Orange found out that one of his favorite indigenous writers wasn’t actually indigenous, then he interviewed him. Here & Now‘s Scott Tong speaks to Orange about what he found out and the long history…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (326+ words) Caterina, Doris and the courage Diari ARA In 2007, the Nobel Prize in Literature celebrated the long, prestigious and committed literary career of Doris Lessing, who received the news with the calm of her 88 years, just as she was arriving home…...

2+ day, 53+ min ago   (1791+ words) Even when we grow up and leave, our childhood home does not completely abandon us. The walls may change, the furniture may be replaced, and other people may live in the rooms where we once slept, played, or cried. Yet…...

1+ day, 19+ hour ago   (13+ words) Memoir tells of ‘constant theme’ running through Nelson author’s unconventional life The Press...