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Stories, essays, and reflections by and about people whose life stories demand to be told.
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My Katrina Survival Story — 10 Years Later
My Katrina Survival Story — 10 Years Later
An Excerpt from Big Freedia: The Queen Diva
Simon & Schuster
Aug 31, 2015
Seeing Home
Seeing Home
An excerpt from the Memoir of Ed Lucas
Simon & Schuster
Apr 17, 2015
The New Old-Fashioned Way
The New Old-Fashioned Way
Remembering how to do it yourself
Simon & Schuster
Oct 30, 2014
The First Time I Met Joan Rivers
The First Time I Met Joan Rivers
“Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.” -Wicked
Lindsay Roth
Sep 16, 2014
Being the Son of the 1993 WTC Jihadist
Being the Son of the 1993 WTC Jihadist
1 November 5, 1990
Zak Ebrahim
Sep 16, 2014
New York looks like a Nintendo game, like Megaman.
New York looks like a Nintendo game, like Megaman.
Shit gets real digital on ketamine.
Simon & Schuster
Sep 12, 2014
Behind the Gates of Gomorrah
A Year with the Criminally Insane
Simon & Schuster
Sep 11, 2014
I Spent 25 Years in Prison For a Crime I Did Not Commit
I Spent 25 Years in Prison For a Crime I Did Not Commit
Michael Morton
Jul 14, 2014
My Grandmother Was One of the Girls of Atomic City
My Grandmother Was One of the Girls of Atomic City
by Justina Batchelor, with a note from The Girls of Atomic City author Denise Kiernan
Simon & Schuster
May 9, 2014
HAM: Slices of a Fairly Colorful Life
HAM: Slices of a Fairly Colorful Life
Sam Harris
Dec 13, 2013
Charles Manson Was Never a Lunatic
Charles Manson Was Never a Lunatic
by Jeff Guinn, author of Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson
Simon & Schuster
Nov 20, 2013
Finding Hope in a Hopeless World: What My Readers Taught Me About Domestic Abuse
Finding Hope in a Hopeless World: What My Readers Taught Me About Domestic Abuse
Rowan Coleman
Nov 11, 2013
The Most Misunderstood Presidential Marriage: Pat and Dick Nixon
The Most Misunderstood Presidential Marriage: Pat and Dick Nixon
By Will Swift
Will Swift
Nov 4, 2013
A Better Way of Dying
A Better Way of Dying
An excerpt from Katy Butler’s new memoir and exposé of modern medicine that asks: How we can make end-of-life care less invasive and more humane?
Katy Butler
Oct 14, 2013
Fifteen months of captivity in Somalia
Fifteen months of captivity in Somalia
An excerpt from Amanda Lindhout’s new memoir “A House in the Sky,” which chronicles her kidnapping and captivity in one of the most perilous countries on earth
Simon & Schuster
Sep 3, 2013
Literally, Joking
Literally, Joking
Simon & Schuster
Jun 24, 2013
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