Writing Memoir Essays

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 'Mark Foo's Last Ride,' 'After the Fall,' and Other Essays from the Vault
    • By: Jon Krakauer
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Length: 5 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 359 ratings
    • Spanning an extraordinary range of subjects and locations, these ten gripping essays show why Jon Krakauer is considered a standard-bearer of modern journalism....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Includes the #1 Secret to Power Up Your Writing now!
    • By: Carolyn V. Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-24
    • Language: English
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    • Finished writing your memoir? Get ready for EDITING, where your major work begins. This short guide covers everything you need to know to edit your...

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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.

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    • Excursions to the Edge of Thought
    • By: Jim Holt
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 15 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 646 ratings
    • From Jim Holt, New York Times best-selling author, comes this entertaining and accessible audiobook guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries....

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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 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter....

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    • The Short Writings of Tom Robbins
    • By: Tom Robbins
    • Narrated by: Tom Robbins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-05
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Known for his meaty seriocomic novels–expansive works that are simultaneously lowbrow and highbrow–Tom Robbins has also published over the years a number of short pieces, predominantly nonfiction....

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    • By: Charles Kuralt
    • Narrated by: Charles Kuralt
    • Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 212 ratings
    • In 1994, retired CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt set out to spend a perfect year in America - traveling to...

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    • A Year of Spontaneous Essays
    • By: Kathie Giorgio
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 21 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-24
    • Language: English
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    • “Giorgio’s compassion is memorable.” –KIRKUS REVIEW It wasn’t a typical response to depression. Reaching a new low in her life, Kathie ...

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