Sonali Deraniyagala has survived the unthinkable. In her memoir "Wave," published last week, she describes the experience and wrenching aftermath of losing her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the 2004 tsunami triggered by an earthquake in the Indian Ocean. Of the roughly 275,000 people...(READ MORE)
There’s a reason Yoko Ono peers penetratingly from the jacket cover of Rolling Stone journalist Jonathan Cott’s slim volume of reminiscences and outtakes from the multiple interviews he conducted with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.(READ MORE)
In celebration of the annual AWP conference, Biographile pulled together some of our favorite books on writing by writers. (READ MORE)
Americans today are drowning in celebrity culture. We take it so much for granted that we forget how hard our forefathers worked to invent it. Celebrity pioneer Davy Crockett, for example, became a mega-celeb in the 1830s. Here's how to model your life after his.(READ MORE)
The author of ‘An Unquenchable Thirst’ reflects on the difficulties of letting go of the selflessness of nunhood to the self-reflection of memoir. (READ MORE)
With "Makers: Women Who Make America," a three-hour documentary airing next week on PBS, as a catalyst for in-depth exploration, dive into the personal stories of these four extraordinary women. (READ MORE)
Amy Webb’s new memoir, “Data: A Love Story,” charts her painfully funny journey through the algorithmic wilderness of online dating to a fairy-tale ending. Here, she chats with Biographile about the backlash from her book, the problem with serendipity, and her own true love story.(READ MORE)
We rounded up real-life love stories, hilarious memoirs, heartbreaking letters, and wise counsel for every February 14 attitude, from the swooningly romantic to the strictly realistic to the wholeheartedly anti.(READ MORE)
On Tuesday, February 5, the "New York Review of Books" celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its first issue. The review was an optimistic experiment, and fifty years later, still offers erudite and irreverent commentary.(READ MORE)
Lately we've been thinking a lot about literary influence, whether in relation to Geoff Dyer's D.H. Lawrence obsession or Graham Greene's haunting of Pico Iyer. Like apprentices of any trade, writers learn theory and craft from those who came before. As serious as that business can be, we can't help...(READ MORE)
