Memoir | Biography and Memoir
Aug.25.2008
A modern family’s intimate story
of beautiful hardship on a small Wyoming ranch.
Page Lambert’s story is a moving account of how she and her husband and their two children move from Colorado to remote Wyoming. In superbly crafted writing, Lambert speaks of ranching traditions and of the cycles of...
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Aug.24.2008
"I like the wide sweep of it. There are many mysteries between father and son that people don't talk about... There's much leaping, but each line, so to speak, steps on something solid." --Robert Bly on father and son sequence.
As the Globe & Mail (Canada) noted in a review of The...
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Aug.24.2008
The first inside account of growing up as the designated "chosen one" in the cult run by the charismatic guru Sri Chinmoy.
Born into a family of devout followers where absolute obedience to Sri Chinmoy was required, Jayanti Tamm spent twenty-five years in Chinmoy's inner circle....
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Aug.22.2008
When Wade Rouse—a rural, public school graduate who grew up more Hee Haw than Dynasty—was hired as the director of publicity at the prestigious Tate Academy, he quickly discovered his real job was to make a few of the very pretty, very rich, very mean mommies of the elite students happy. Enter...
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Aug.22.2008
Growing up in the Missouri Ozarks in the 1960s and ’70s, Wade Rouse was always a bit of an outsider. While some of his roughneck peers wore Wrangler jeans and had stylish crew cuts, Wade feathered his golden hair and sported a handmade leatherwork belt bearing his unfortunate childhood nickname,...
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Aug.17.2008
"You, Me and Morrissey" is a collection of autobiographical short stories capturing snapshots of love, loss, bigotry, violence, artistic birth, and mental illness. Each story is set to the soundtrack of a Smiths or Morrissey title or lyric, and documents the trials of youth and adulthood...
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Aug.14.2008
‘You need to be deported,' said the retired army general. What follows is not deportation but the beginning of an exploration, both personal and political, of the Pakistani mind and that of a nation state. It becomes the beginning of an exploration, both personal and political. An Indian Muslim...
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Jul.17.2008
The year was 1985. Smack dab in the middle of the cash happy/coke crazy, when it was raining men and girls just wanted to have fun on ladies night, that’s when David Henry Sterry became the Master of Ceremonies at Chippendales, the hottest show in the city that never sleeps. And he did it all in...
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Jul.17.2008
The year was 1985. Smack dab in the middle of the cash happy/coke crazy, when it was raining men and girls just wanted to have fun on ladies night, that’s when David Henry Sterry became the Master of Ceremonies at Chippendales, the hottest show in the city that never sleeps. And he did it all in...
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Jul.11.2008
One man has chosen to document his personal attempts to achieve the top of the homosexual heap.
Joel Derfner's "Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever (Broadway Books; $23.95) began, according to the author, as an attempt to, well, become the gayest person ever. The stories he...
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