Memoir Archives

Bookmarked, Indie & Small Press, Reviews

REVIEW: Beyond Forgetting Is an Imperfect Memoir

January 18, 2022

Beyond Forgetting is a short memoir by Frank A. De La Rosa. The memoir combines short historical summaries with personal stories to illustrate the experience of growing up in the Philippines under Japanese occupation and just after World War II. Beyond Forgetting captures an imperfect human ...

Comics, Pubwatch

IDW Pubwatch August 2019

August 13, 2019

Welcome to the August IDW Pubwatch! I’m thrilled to present you with this month’s findings. It’s been a busy month at IDW, and I’ve got all the interesting news coming out of the publishing house, as well as tons of IDW comic book reviews. George Takei’s eagerly anticipated They Called Us Enemy ...

Bookmarked, News

Book Beat: Naomi Wolf’s Fact-Checking Blunder, Moby’s Memoir, and Marie-Kondo’s Children’s Book

May 30, 2019

Hello again, book nerds! It’s Emily, back to share the latest from the literary world. Now, I tend to lean a little more to fiction in my reading tastes, but my social feeds have been filled with non-fiction controversies lately (in addition to Game of Thrones takes and Toronto Raptors ...

Comics, Reviews

Handling Parenthood with Lucy Knisley’s Kid Gloves

April 23, 2019

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos Lucy Knisley (artist/writer) First Second March 2019 Lucy Knisley’s latest memoir, Kid Gloves, narrates her experiences with pregnancy, and highlights historical and medical information about pregnancy and how we treat it in the western world.

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Book Beat: They Can’t Kill Us All

September 14, 2017

Hello all, Stephanie here again! I was excited to find that there’s been a lot going on in the book and publishing industry this past week surrounding female authors, writers, and characters, particularly black women. Let’s get into it! In YA book news, the second book in Daniel ...

Reviews, Zines

Zine Review: Gringa

April 6, 2016

Gringa Kat Fajardo Kat Fajardo’s Gringa opens with a startling two-page spread: protestors, some angry, many gleeful, hold up signs bearing statements like “Diversity = White Genocide” and “Return to Sender.” It is a stark, frightening punch in the gut; a reminder that those who carry ...

Comics

Review: Do You Miss Your Country?

March 30, 2016

Do You Miss Your Country? Monika Szydłowska Centrala A copy of this book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. I don’t often talk about my father’s immigration. If I do, it’s usually because I’ve been directly asked about the “when” and “why,” and while the former ...

Comic Strips, Comics, Opinion, Profiles & Primers, Webcomics

Comics’ Infinite Scroll: To The Rim and Beyond

March 25, 2016

The launch of Stela, a new comics app which publishes titles optimized for the downward scrolling function of smartphones, has kicked up some talk about Scott McCloud’s Reinventing Comics. Published in 2000 as a sequel to Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics considers the kinds of ...

Essays

Ten Things I Have Learned About Mental Illness from Jenny Lawson

February 4, 2016

I have been in therapy for over a decade now. I have tried a variety of medications and experienced a variety of diagnoses—mostly with the same theme: depression, anxiety, obsessive-depressive, obsessive-compulsive like symptoms, and so on. The Bloggess Jenny Lawson has depression, severe ...

Reviews, Zines

Zine Review: Jane: Documents from Chicago’s Clandestine Abortion Service 1968-1973

January 27, 2016

Jane: Documents from Chicago’s Clandestine Abortion Service 1968-1973 Firestarter Press, 2004 January 22nd marked the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Perhaps it is more apt to say it sort of legalized abortion as, according to a recent ...

Memoir

REVIEW: Beyond Forgetting Is an Imperfect Memoir

IDW Pubwatch August 2019

Book Beat: Naomi Wolf’s Fact-Checking Blunder, Moby’s Memoir, and Marie-Kondo’s Children’s Book

Handling Parenthood with Lucy Knisley’s Kid Gloves

Book Beat: They Can’t Kill Us All

Zine Review: Gringa

Review: Do You Miss Your Country?

Comics’ Infinite Scroll: To The Rim and Beyond

Ten Things I Have Learned About Mental Illness from Jenny Lawson

Zine Review: Jane: Documents from Chicago’s Clandestine Abortion Service 1968-1973

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