The Wine Lover’s Daughter by Anne Fadiman
★★★☆☆ The essayist, critic, and radio mainstay Clifton Fadiman is an entirely fitting subject for a book, but even more appropriate is to have that book be a brilliant love letter from his daughter....
Category: Biography & Memoir
Devotion by Patti Smith
★★★☆☆ Patti Smith’s Devotion is a concise and special compilation consisting of three works that explore the author’s creative process. Two narrative essays bookend the eponymous story “Devotion”, a short and bittersweet tale of a young...
Monograph by Chris Ware
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Chris Ware is one of the greatest cartoonists working today and the sumptuous Monograph provides all the proof one needs to understand this fact. Monograph is a memoir disguised...
Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis
★★★★☆ After graduating from Syracuse University in 1964, a young Lou Reed took a songwriting job for a label that mass-produced pop tunes and released them under fictitious band names. As a sort of...
On Power by Gene Simmons
★★☆☆☆ KISS co-founder Gene Simmons really likes power. So much so that his new book’s title contains this word three times. On Power: My Journey Through the Corridors of Power and How You Can...
Down Below by Leonora Carrington
★★★★☆ In 1940, surrealist artist Leonora Carrington suffered a psychotic breakdown. She was in her early twenties, and her partner, celebrated master of Surrealism Max Ernst, was just taken from her at rifle-point and...
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Leonardo da Vinci may be the best biography of the year. It has certainly received the most hype, and in this instance it rises to the level of approbation...
Imagine Wanting Only This by Kristen Radtke
★★☆☆☆ Kristen Radtke’s aimless comics memoir Imagine Wanting Only This is about little more than a writer in search of a story. Kristen clumsily wanders through a series of inspired diversions with hope that,...
Morgue: A Life in Death by Dr. Vincent Di Maio and Ron Franscell
★★★★☆ Morgue: A Life in Death is an enlightening read; do not be put off by the title. Although there are graphic descriptions of wounds and modes of death, this is not a blood...
