Memoir Essays

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    • A Memoir in Essays
    • By: CJ Hauser
    • Narrated by: CJ Hauser
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century....

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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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    • 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 1,824 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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    • By: Albert Camus
    • Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 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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    • 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 98 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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    • On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
    • By: Elena Ferrante
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter....

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    • The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock 'N' Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock 'N' Roll
    • By: Lester Bangs, Greil Marcus
    • Narrated by: Ramiz Monsef
    • Length: 16 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung contains the wild and brilliant writings of Lester Bangs—the most outrageous and popular rock critic of the 1970s—edited and with an introduction by the reigning dean of rock critics, Greil Marcus....

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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 12,127 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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    • By: Ann Patchett
    • Narrated by: Ann Patchett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,702 ratings
    • Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder and Bel Canto examines her deepest commitments: to writing, family, friends, dogs, books, and her husband....

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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 12 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: 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 299 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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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8,800 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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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 545 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....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Erika L. Sánchez
    • Narrated by: Erika L. Sánchez
    • Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 07-12-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 445 ratings
    • Growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in Chicago in the nineties, Erika Sánchez was a self-described pariah, misfit, and disappointment—a foul-mouthed, melancholic rabble-rouser who painted her nails black but also loved comedy....

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    • A Memoir in Essays
    • By: Kelly McMasters
    • Narrated by: Kelly McMasters
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Kelly McMasters found herself in her mid-thirties living her fantasy: she'd moved with her husband, a painter, from New York City to rural Pennsylvania. The pastoral landscape and the bookshop they opened were restorative at first. But soon, she was quietly plotting her escape....

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    • By: Jim Gaffigan
    • Narrated by: Jim Gaffigan
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10,583 ratings
    • In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who’s best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children....

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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 138 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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