Tag Archives: Memoir

Self-Identified Mermaid Publishes Memoir

Posted on January 9, 2019 by Lucretia Tye Jasmine

Dame Darcy‘s latest art project, a soft cover over-sized book published this month by Feral House, “Hi-Jax and Hi-Jinx:  Life’s a Pitch – and Then You Live Forever,” feels like the friend you always wanted to have: creative, bold, and … Continue reading →

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LA Times Festival Of Books: Emerging from the Underground: Surviving Punk Rock

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Bob Lee

The LA Times Festival Of Books is a highly anticipated event for this town’s literary types, but this year’s edition brought an onslaught from a strange new subgenre of author – the punk rock memoirist. While Dave Grohl interviewed his … Continue reading →

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Book-Ness with K.P.-Ness: Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

Posted on July 22, 2016 by K.P. Rennie

“We all need to create the story that will make sense of our lives.” – “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City,” by Nick Flynn I will often choose a book based on the title or the dedication alone. With this … Continue reading →

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Book-Ness with K.P.-Ness: The Adderall Diaries

Posted on July 15, 2016 by K.P. Rennie

This is the story of a book → that was made into a movie → that was made into a movie about making the movie → and the film festival that was started because of the movie about the movie.  … Continue reading →

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Book-Ness with K.P.-Ness: “Diary of a Teenage Girl”

Posted on June 24, 2016 by K.P. Rennie

Phoebe Gloeckner’s “Diary of a Teenage Girl” is “An Account in Words and Pictures” of Minnie, a fifteen-year-old who is having an affair with Monroe, a 35-year-old man who is also her mother’s lover. What makes this story so different from … Continue reading →

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Book-Ness with K.P.-Ness: “Furiously Happy”

Posted on June 10, 2016 by K.P. Rennie

As a fan of Jenny Lawson’s New York Times bestselling memoir, “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened,” I was looking forward to “Furiously Happy” coming out in September 2015. “Furiously Happy” is a collection of humorous essays with topics ranging from … Continue reading →

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Book-ness with KP-Ness: “Let’s Pretend This Never Happened”

Posted on June 3, 2016 by K.P. Rennie

Since reading this memoir a few years ago, I have gifted five copies to friends. Although this book came out in 2012, I’ve decided to write about it here – that way I feel like I am gifting it to … Continue reading →

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Cheryl Strayed – Brave Enough

Posted on November 6, 2015 by K.P. Rennie

Cheryl Strayed is the author of several books, the most popular of them is Wild, Cheryl’s memoir about walking alone on the Pacific Crest Trail to find her way back to herself after self destructively dealing with the death of … Continue reading →

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