Is it common practice to lie in a memoir? Not for accomplished memoirists, according to Mary Karr. The Art of Memoir, in part a how-to book, distills 30 years of teaching and writing memoir.
    


Mary Karr: The Art of Memoir

The outlandish and unguarded Gary Indiana has written what can be described as an "anti-memoir." He doesn't like memoirs but has written one himself, partly because he has lived a real life all over the world: he actually has something to write about. 
    


Gary Indiana: I Can Give You Anything but Love

Sandra Cisneros, now in her sixties, looks back at her journey to find her voice, in a candid memoir woven from prose, photographs, and essays.
    


Sandra Cisneros: A House of My Own

Allende brings her emotional wisdom to the love lives of three generations of post World War II Asian and Jewish characters.
    


Isabel Allende: The Japanese Lover

Poet, fiction writer, essayist and dramatist Eileen Myles on success, the relevancy of poetry and surviving as a poet
    


Eileen Myles: I Must Be Living Twice

Paul Murray's comic novel dramatizes an economic crisis in his native Ireland, one that imperils the vitality of Dublin's culture.
    


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