Get more out of your summer beach reads by listening to The Moth podcasts, including recordings by the authors of these five books: Piper Kerman, Philip Caputo, Joyce Maynard, Ishmael Beah, and Damien Echols.(READ MORE)
In The Astronaut Wives Club, Lily Koppel describes the club that formed among the seven wives of the Mercury Seven. Their husbands’ heads may have been in the clouds, but these wives kept their feet on the ground. For some books about men, and women, who launched themselves into the sky, read on.(READ MORE)
The World's Strongest Librarian is about the life of Josh Hanagarne, a Salt Lake City librarian diagnosed with Tourette's as a young, bookish schoolboy. He reflects on the obstacles his syndrome presents, and how weight-lifting has helped him gain control of his tics and his confidence. (READ MORE)
To celebrate Father's Day, we've rounded up six great explorations of father-son and father-daughter relationships, as depicted by some of our favorite authors. Funny, daring, moving, and sincere, tackling large issues of race, sexuality, and inheritance alongside the comedy of day-to-day life, these...(READ MORE)
In their biography Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary, Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen illustrate how hard it would be to overstate the popularity of Capp’s “Li’l Abner” comic strip, which spawned a Hollywood movie and a Broadway musical. In a 1947 New Yorker profile of Capp that ran in two...(READ MORE)
These five memoirs trek deep into the heart of teenage-hood, and find hilarity and heartbreak along the journey. They also remind us how little we miss our angsty teenage years. (READ MORE)
In The Internship, Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson play two downsized salesmen who, faced with unemployment and zero job prospects, manage to weasel their way into internships at Google. To read about some real life internship nightmares, check out the following memoirs (and one truly cautionary biography.)(READ MORE)
June 8 is the birthday of America’s most influential architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, and to celebrate, Biographile has chosen nine books that explore his groundbreaking work against the backdrop of his turbulent personal life. (READ MORE)
After shooting The Avengers Joss Whedon took two weeks to make a black and white, contemporary version of Much Ado About Nothing: iPhones, swimming pools, and all. To get a sense of the man behind the plays that inspired Whedon, check out these Shakespeare biographies.(READ MORE)
Tell My Sons -- a memoir by Lt. Col. Mark Weber -- is basically an open letter to his wife Kristin and their three boys, Matthew, Joshua, and Noah, as he battles stage IV intestinal cancer. Patrick Sauer pulls some passages from Tell My Sons that stood out, and comes away from the book with the utmost...(READ MORE)
