The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls

It’s a running joke that there’s never any food in my parents’ house. My mother lacks the foresight necessary for adequate grocery shopping, although even when my mother was at her most Hubbard, I never had to eat exclusively grapes for three weeks or pick through other kids’ discarded lunches in the bathroom garbage so [...]

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Candy Girl, by Diablo Cody

When my friend Reeder told me she was reading a book by Diablo Cody, I was excited (and for the record, Cody wrote this before she became a household name). When she told me it was about Cody’s year as a stripper, I was even MORE excited. Like many people, I am both repulsed and [...]

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Too Close to the Falls, by Catherine Gildiner

I certainly would have never thought myself a memoir reader. For me memoir falls uncomfortably close to “autobiography”, which conjures up sun-faded tomes discharged from the local library about dusty politicians. I am pleased to say, Gildiner proved me wrong. Too Close to the Falls is as rich and evocative as the best fiction, and [...]

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