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…
Memoirs
5 of the Best New Memoirs of Spring
Memoirs offer readers the opportunity to take a journey through another human’s life. No matter how different the particulars of…
4 New Books from Women You Want To Be Friends With
Imagine this: you’re invited to a party planned by Reese Witherspoon, in immaculate Southern fashion. Chrissy Teigen brings the food.…
6 Funny, Awkward Memoirs By Funny, Awkward Women
The last ten years have seen a surge of funny lady memoirs. When you want the literary equivalent of drinking…
Celebrate Opening Day with 10 Great Baseball Books
Once again Opening Day is upon us, so it’s time to oil up that glove, gloat over your baseball card…
In Nevertheless, Alec Baldwin Makes His Brand Brutal Honesty
On the third page of Alec Baldwin’s unvarnished new memoir, Nevertheless, he startles you with this: “I’m not actually writing…
5 Reasons We Can’t Wait to Read Alec Baldwin’s Memoir Nevertheless
Eventually, everyone famous writes a memoir, in part because famous people do tend to lead interesting lives, and in part…
7 Books That Celebrate the Joys of Being Alone
If you think Sartre was right on when he wrote “hell is other people,” or if you could just use…
Sports Stories for Every Fan
The holidays mean different things to different people, but one thing binds us all together: the tricky journey of gift-giving. Our advice?…
6 Incredible Memoirs by Defectors from Closed Societies
What lurks behind the doors and beyond the borders of the world’s most shuttered societies? It’s a question that fascinates…
Honest, Tender, Normal, Dark: 4 Ways Amy Schumer’s New Memoir Is Not What You’d Expect
The inimitable Amy Schumer, known for her brash and unabashed standup comedy (as well as her Emmy-winning show Inside Amy…
5 Reasons We Can’t Wait to Read Amy Schumer’s The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
According to fans and critics alike, Amy Schumer is single-handedly changing the face of comedy with her raunchy, feminist, too-much-information…
6 Fictional Characters Whose Memoirs We’d Love to Read
There’s nothing better than a good tell-all memoir…except, of course, a tell-all memoir from someone whose past, present, and future…
William Shatner’s Leonard Illuminates a Famous Friendship
There was great fanfare when Leonard Nimoy visited Barack Obama in the White House. Here, finally, was Spock himself meeting a president…
20 Little-Known Facts About David Spade From His New Laugh-A-Minute Memoir, Almost Interesting
Written with the same dry wit and pun-dropping style as his standup comedy, David Spade’s new memoir Almost Interesting is chock…
The Forceful, Vital Lessons Of Between The World And Me
When a patron saint of American literature like Toni Morrison calls a book “required reading,” you pick up a copy with one…
Tom Brokaw’s A Lucky Life Interrupted Is a Revealing Memoir of His Battle with Cancer
As the world struggles with a growing shortage of journalists who can be trusted to tell us the unvarnished truth, it…
8 Lessons We Learned from How to Be a Heroine
Jane Eyre or Catherine Earnshaw? When a friend of Samantha Ellis’s argues that Jane is the better choice for a…