memoir

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In his newly released memoir, Galaxy great Landon Donovan recounts his troubled relationship with his father and how he overcame crippling depression.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026

People on the internet seem to be taking Lindy West’s memoir as millennial feminism’s final death knell.

From Slate • Mar. 31, 2026

Ernest Hemingway’s memoir, “A Moveable Feast,” opens with him as a young man in 1920s Paris worrying about the cost of heating his apartment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Recording sessions took several years, fitted in around McCartney's hectic touring schedule, as well as the production of the Beatles documentary Get Back and the writing of a memoir about the star's 1970s band, Wings.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

At the time Mudgett described this encounter in his memoir, he was sitting in a prison cell hoping to engineer a swell of public sympathy.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson