Memoir | Memoir
Nov.06.2008
Hoffman here proves herself a first-rate guide to Eastern Europe, offering vivid snapshots of conditions in the former Soviet satellites. Visiting her native Poland, she spends time with the co-editor of one of the country's most successful newspapers, who describes her hellish past hiding in the...
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Nov.05.2008
In Shtetl (Yiddish for "small town"), critically-acclaimed author Eva Hoffman brings the lost world of Eastern European Jews back to vivid life, depicting its complex institutions and vibrant culture, its beliefs, social distinctions, and customs. Through the small town of Braƒsk, she...
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Oct.31.2008
One memoir, about eight years I spent as a journalist in Poland 1966-1974.
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Oct.21.2008
When my wife and I bought a century old house in a suburb of my beloved city, I knew I had to write about it. The experience of purchasing a home place, among the most common events in an adult's life, felt more cataclysmic than, well, buying a house ought to feel. Second to childbirth on the...
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Oct.18.2008
One journalist's riveting -- and surprising -- in the trenches look at Alzheimer's.
Like many children of Alzheimer's sufferers, Lauren Kessler, an accomplished journalist, was devastated by the disease that seemed to erase her mother's identity. But suppose people with Alzheimer's are not slates...
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Oct.03.2008
"Tennessee Reed is a brand new star in the galaxy of our spirit-shining for all of our people." -Simon Ortiz, author of Telling and Showing Her "Reed writes with clarity, wit, and wonder-and with an open-hearted passion that disarms, refreshes, and delights." -Al Young, author...
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Sep.18.2008
A coming-of-age summer at a Peace Corps camp in the Blueridge Mountains, discovering new definitions of identity, friendship and love.
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Aug.28.2008
A brief personal memoir from my birth through the publication of my second novek, SKIRTS.
At the time of writing it I was living in a tiny cottage in Berkeley; I have since
moved to an apartment with a beautiful view in Oakland, near the lake.
I was born Anna Cohen on a Thursday late in June in...
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