memoir

Jill Bialosky’s new book, "The End is the Beginning," is a moving elegy, starting with her mother’s end and the physical/cognitive decline that led her to a care home.Compounding her challenges of raising four daughters without a livelihood or partner, Iris’s life coincided with an age of unstoppable social change and reinvention, when the roles of wife and mother she was raised to inhabit ceased to be the guarantors of stability and happiness.

Scott Bok is the former board chair of the University of Pennsylvania, longtime CEO of the Mergers and Acquisitions advisory firm Greenhill & Co., and the author of the new book "Surviving Wall Street: A Tale of Triumph, Tragedy, and Timing" which examines his life facing crises on Wall Street and, most recently, his resignation from the Penn Board in December 2023.

Former “Vanity Fair” staffer and “New York Times” contributor E.A. Hanks, daughter of Tom Hanks, has written her debut memoir “The 10: A Memoir of Family and the Open Road.”

Casey Mulligan Walsh will tell us about her new memoir, "The Full Catastrophe: All I Ever Wanted, Everything I Feared." In a moving testament to the power of love, "The Full Catastrophe " tells of a life of loss and sorrow transformed into one of hope and redemption.

The new book “1974: A Personal History” is the first work of memoir from New York Times Bestselling writer Francine Prose where she recounts a momentary but intense relationship she had with the troubled activist Anthony Russo, a galvanizing figure who paid a hefty psychic price for the leaking of the pentagon papers.

Musician, music producer, artist, and self-proclaimed critter, Neko Case has written her memoir. “The Harder I Fight The More I Love You.” It was released in late January.

For the past seven decades, Tim Matheson has been an on-screen favorite in Hollywood. In his new memoir, "Damn Glad to Meet You," Matheson looks at his illustrious career, and reveals what it was like to learn from and work alongside the greats, including Lucille Ball, Dick Van Dyke, Steven Spielberg, and Aaron Sorkin.

A self-described recovering perfectionist, Dr. Shai Butler, author of "Better. Not Perfect-From Hot Mess To Life Success" is leading a movement of women who are learning to give the same grace to themselves that they so freely give to others.

"Feh" is the Yiddish word for an expression of disapproval or disgust. It is also the title of Shalom Auslander’s new memoir which is a quest to understand how this concept became an internalized theme of his life.

On this week's 51%, we speak with journalist and author Julie Fingersh about her debut memoir Stay: A Story of Family, Love, and Other Traumas. Fingersh is the former executive director of the volunteer organization Boston Cares, and her journalistic work has appeared in The New York Times, O Magazine, and The Huffington Post. In Stay, she reflects on her decision to leave her career and become a stay-at-home mom, as well as the importance of mental healthcare and the cost of family secrets.