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Music will be intently tied to our reminiscences, and this could be a boon once we write about our previous experiences. I just lately got here throughout a brand new neuroscientific examine which discovered that the mind is wired in order that “music is deeply intertwined with our sense of identification and private historical past.”…
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Interviewed by Morgan Baker I didn’t count on Map of a Coronary heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Discovering the Approach House (Vine Leaves Press; February 2026) to be a web page turner, like a thriller, however it’s. Within the e book, Jacque Gorelick and her younger husband, Ed, go for a hike with their…
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Interviewed By Nan J. Bauer There’s an essay in Jill Christman’s If This Had been Fiction: A Love Story in Essays the place she describes the time her daughter, 4 years outdated on the time, rammed a googly eye up her nostril. Detecting and extracting the attention is harrowing enterprise. It’s additionally hilarious. And it’s classic…
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Interviewed by J. Michael Lennon Halfway by way of Dizzy: A Memoir (West Virginia College Press; 2025), an alternately excruciating and lyrical memoir of being misplaced for 18 years within the complexities of a tough to diagnose medical situation, Rachel Weaver runs right into a fellow affected person at one of many innumerable clinics the place…
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Interviewed by Leslie Lindsay After I was an adolescent, everybody had an opinion about what I ought to do with my life. ‘Pediatrician. Mom. Architect. Journalist,’ they sang. Extra particularly, “A broadcast journalist!” I went to nursing college. After I was simply out of nursing college, residing within the Midwest, I took a job at a behavioral…
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Reviewed by Elizabeth Austin Arianna Rebolini’s Higher: A Memoir of Wanting To Die (Harper; April 2025) is a unprecedented hybrid, weaving collectively confessional narrative, exhaustive analysis, and cultural evaluation. Rebolini examines the writings and deaths of well-known suicides, critiques the psychological healthcare system, explores familial patterns of psychological sickness, and asks the elemental query that haunts…
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Reviewed by Emily Webber Once you choose up Molly Gaudry’s Match Into Me, A Novel: A Memoir (and also you most positively ought to), you’ll have sure expectations moving into identical to I did. Put together for them to be smashed in the easiest way doable. I anticipated it to be like Erika Stern’s genre-blending e book, Frontier,…
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REVIEW: Movement Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Skinny Ice by Jocelyn Jane Cox
Reviewed by Emily Webber Jocelyn Jane Cox’s memoir, Movement Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating (Vine Leaves Press; Sept. 2025), is a tribute to her mom, a love letter to her son, and a testomony to resilience as a caregiver. The memoir begins as Cox makes preparations for her son’s zebra-themed first birthday celebration.…
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Reviewed by Dorothy Rowena Rice Humble Pie: Sober Menopause, Sugar Dependancy, and the Sweetness of Restoration (Bloomsbury; Jan. 2026) is a memoir that’s by turns laugh-out-loud humorous, emotionally charged, and extremely relatable throughout a large spectrum of points and ages. A trifecta of themes present the story’s backbone. Because the title states, Bowman (the writer…
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Reviewed by Melissa Oliveira Early in Lights In Chilly Rooms: A Psychologist Displays on Household, Growing old, Love & Loss (CavanKerry Press; 2025), Joan Cusack Handler writes, “Incidents of despair quadrupled amongst growing old ladies through the COVID pandemic and quarantine isolation… Those that have been struggling have been left to face their demons alone.”…