

Listen Up! November 2023 on Poured Over
Kicking off a month of episodes on our Poured Over podcast featuring some of our favorite award-winning authors, from a…
Kicking off a month of episodes on our Poured Over podcast featuring some of our favorite award-winning authors, from a…
Memoirs offer readers the opportunity to take a journey through another human’s life. No matter how different the particulars of…
Imagine this: you’re invited to a party planned by Reese Witherspoon, in immaculate Southern fashion. Chrissy Teigen brings the food.…
The last ten years have seen a surge of funny lady memoirs. When you want the literary equivalent of drinking…
Once again Opening Day is upon us, so it’s time to oil up that glove, gloat over your baseball card…
On the third page of Alec Baldwin’s unvarnished new memoir, Nevertheless, he startles you with this: “I’m not actually writing…
Eventually, everyone famous writes a memoir, in part because famous people do tend to lead interesting lives, and in part…
If you think Sartre was right on when he wrote “hell is other people,” or if you could just use…
The holidays mean different things to different people, but one thing binds us all together: the tricky journey of gift-giving. Our advice?…
What lurks behind the doors and beyond the borders of the world’s most shuttered societies? It’s a question that fascinates…
The inimitable Amy Schumer, known for her brash and unabashed standup comedy (as well as her Emmy-winning show Inside Amy…
According to fans and critics alike, Amy Schumer is single-handedly changing the face of comedy with her raunchy, feminist, too-much-information…
There’s nothing better than a good tell-all memoir…except, of course, a tell-all memoir from someone whose past, present, and future…
There was great fanfare when Leonard Nimoy visited Barack Obama in the White House. Here, finally, was Spock himself meeting a president…
Written with the same dry wit and pun-dropping style as his standup comedy, David Spade’s new memoir Almost Interesting is chock…
When a patron saint of American literature like Toni Morrison calls a book “required reading,” you pick up a copy with one…
As the world struggles with a growing shortage of journalists who can be trusted to tell us the unvarnished truth, it…
Jane Eyre or Catherine Earnshaw? When a friend of Samantha Ellis’s argues that Jane is the better choice for a…