The 2015 Literary Fauxscars: And the Nominees are…
By Amanda Festa Award show season is here again, and while the Academy Awards has its merits, one “Best Adapted Screenplay” category hardly seems like…
Tag: Memoirs
A Tender Evening in JR Moehringer’s “The Tender Bar”
By Jennifer Locke The local bar: it’s a place both mythologized and longed-for, a place Americans with packed schedules and commuter lifestyles dream of in…
Woman Gone ‘Wild’: Cheryl Strayed Traveling Solo
By Amanda Festa In her memoir, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed hikes 1,100 miles on the PCT, which…
Hemingway at Shakespeare & Company
For Ernest Hemingway, the walk from his Latin Quarter flat to Gertrude Stein’s pavillon at 27, rue des Fleurs, would have been a pleasant one:…