Memoir Essays

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    • Competitive Crafters, Drop-Off Despots, and Other Suburban Scourges
    • By: Jen Mann
    • Narrated by: Jen Mann
    • Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • A debut collection of witty, biting essays laced with a surprising warmth, from Jen Mann, the writer behind the popular blog People I Want to Punch in the Throat...

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    • Essays
    • By: Alexander Chee
    • Narrated by: Daniel K. Isaac
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 307 ratings
    • How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author's manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him....

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    • A Literary Autobiography
    • By: William F. Buckley Jr.
    • Narrated by: William F. Buckley Jr.
    • Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • In this autobiography, woven from personal pieces composed over the course of a celebrated writing life of more than 50 years, you'll meet William Buckley the boy....

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    • Nonfiction, 1970-2015
    • By: Jim Harrison
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 12 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • The first general nonfiction title in thirty years from a giant of American letters, The Search for the Genuine is a sparkling definitive collection of Jim Harrison’s essays and journalism—some never before published....

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    • By: H. L. Mencken
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Length: 26 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • Edited and annotated by H. L. M., this is a selection from his out-of-print writings. They come mostly from books - the six installments of the Prejudices series - but there are also magazine and newspaper pieces that never got between covers....

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    • An Essay Collection
    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Kimberly Farr, Hilton Als
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 165 ratings
    • From one of our most iconic and influential writers comes a timeless collection of mostly early pieces that reveal what would become Joan Didion's subjects, including the press, politics, California robber barons, women, and her own self-doubt....

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    • By: John Muir
    • Narrated by: Steven Brand
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • Part of John Muir's appeal to modern audiences is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. Here collected are some of Muir's finest wilderness essays, ranging in subject matter from Alaska to Yellowstone and more....

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    • By: David Sedaris
    • Narrated by: David Sedaris
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12,256 ratings
    • David Sedaris' new collection of essays - including live recordings! - tells a most unconventional life story. It begins with a North Carolina childhood filled with speech-therapy classes...

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    • A Memoir in Essays
    • By: Nicole Graev Lipson
    • Narrated by: Nicole Graev Lipson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In this intimate and riveting memoir, Best American Essayist Nicole Graev Lipson breaks through the ready-made stories of womanhood, rescuing truth from the fiction that infiltrates our lives.

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    • True Stories of a Life in Medicine
    • By: Walter M. Robinson
    • Narrated by: Daniel Thomas May
    • Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics....

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    • People and Places
    • By: Paul Theroux
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons to intimate personal remembrances....

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    • Essays
    • By: Maris Kreizman
    • Narrated by: Maris Kreizman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • A debut essay collection by the inimitable cultural critic Maris Kreizman—an introspective, searing account of the life experiences that have pushed this former “good Democrat” even further to the political left.

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    • By: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring personal writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan....

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    • Essays
    • By: Lawrence Burney
    • Narrated by: Lawrence Burney
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • An essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney that is a personal and analytical look at his home city of Baltimore, music from throughout the global Black diaspora, and the traditions that raised him. For fans of Hanif Abdurraqib, Kiese Laymon, and Isaac Fitzgerald.

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    • By: Joan Didion
    • Narrated by: Julianne Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 04-22-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights

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    • A Memoir Essay
    • By: Hugo Smith
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-25
    • Language: English
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    • In this memoir essay, we go into the experience of a schizophrenic. We start with beginning from when the psychosis began, give first-hand accounts...

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    • A Memoir in Essays
    • By: Edgar Gomez
    • Narrated by: Edgar Gomez
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • From the award-winning author of High-Risk Homosexual comes a darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State.

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    • Essays and Arguments
    • By: David Foster Wallace
    • Narrated by: Paul Garcia
    • Length: 17 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 860 ratings
    • David Foster Wallace brings to nonfiction the same curiosity, hilarity, and exhilarating verbal facility that has delighted readers of his fiction, including the best-selling Infinite Jest....

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    • Essays
    • By: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,928 ratings
    • “Any story that starts will also end.” As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this truth in these wise essays that afford a fresh and intimate look into her mind and heart....

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