Memoir Essays

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    • How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into Essays and Life into Literature
    • By: Bill Roorbach
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • From drawing a map of a remembered neighborhood to signing a form releasing yourself to take risks in your work, Roorbach offers innovative techniques that will trigger ideas for all writers....

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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 34 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....

    Regular price: $16.07

    • 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...

    Regular price: $17.19

    • A Memoir in Essays
    • By: Damon Young
    • Narrated by: Damon Young
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 597 ratings
    • For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young’s efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him....

    Regular price: $27.89

    • 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 18 ratings
    • The Nobel Prize winner's most influential and enduring personal writings, newly curated and introduced by acclaimed Camus scholar Alice Kaplan....

    Regular price: $13.75

    • 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 11 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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    • 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...

    Regular price: $3.99

    • 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....

    Regular price: $20.97

    • 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....

    Regular price: $24.04

    • 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....

    Regular price: $13.97

    • The Tragic, Meticulously Researched Biography of the Jazz Age's High Priestess
    • By: Sally Cline
    • Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 17 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Zelda Fitzgerald was the mythical American Dream Girl of the Roaring Twenties who became, in the words of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald, "the first American flapper"....

    Regular price: $29.95

    • 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....

    Regular price: $20.18

    • Essays
    • By: Maris Kreizman
    • Narrated by: Maris Kreizman
    • Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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.

    Regular price: $21.59

    • Humorous Essays and Short Stories
    • By: Hank Mancini
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-25
    • Language: English
    • Not rated yet
    • This book will make you laugh! In these tense times of uncertainty and division, this remarkable book is just what the doctor ordered! The book is ...

    Regular price: $6.99

    • An Essay
    • By: Jessica Simpson
    • Narrated by: Jessica Simpson
    • Length: 35 mins
    • Release date: 04-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 517 ratings
    • An inspiring and revealing essay about motherhood, self-acceptance, and overcoming the fears that hold you back by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Open Book....

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    • Essays & Writings
    • By: Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-24-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction debut with this personal and thought-provoking work that explores the journeys and possibilities of Black women throughout American history and in contemporary times.

    Regular price: $25.19

    • The Hundred Books That Changed David Bowie's Life
    • By: John O'Connell
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Three years before David Bowie died, he shared a list of 100 books that changed his life. His choices span fiction and nonfiction, literary and irreverent, and include timeless classics alongside eyebrow-raising obscurities....

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    • A Memoir in Essays
    • By: Minnie Driver
    • Narrated by: Minnie Driver
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 563 ratings
    • In this intimate, beautifully crafted collection, Driver writes and narrates with disarming charm and candor about her bohemian upbringing between England and Barbados; her post-university travails and triumphs....

    Regular price: $19.79

    • Essays
    • By: Elissa Washuta
    • Narrated by: Kyla García
    • Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic....

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