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Autobiography & Memoir

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As Need­ed for Pain: A Mem­oir of Addiction
Dan Peres
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The Auto­bi­og­ra­phy of Alice B. Toklas
Gertrude Stein, Maira Kalman (illus.)
Interview

JBC Authors at the Table: David Adjmi

David Adj­mi, JBC Staff
July 7, 2020
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Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as Told to Me) Story
Bess Kalb
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The Escape Artist
Helen Fre­mont
Essay

Clos­ing Words

Jen­nifer Rosner
June 22, 2020
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Every­body (Else) Is Per­fect: How I Sur­vived Hypocrisy, Beau­ty, Clicks, and Likes
Gabrielle Korn
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Search­ing for Home: The Impact of WWII on a Hid­den Child

Joe Gosler
May 27, 2020
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I Want You to Know We’re Still Here: A Post-Holo­caust Memoir
Esther Safran Foer
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Nice Try: Sto­ries of Best Inten­tions and Mixed Results
Josh Gondelman
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Lit­tle Weirds
Jen­ny Slate
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Excerpt — Bar­ry Son­nen­feld, Call Your Moth­er: Mem­oirs of a Neu­rot­ic Filmmaker

Bar­ry Sonnenfeld
March 10, 2020
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The Return of Car­va­jal: A Mystery
Ilan Sta­vans
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Mixed Mes­sages: Reflec­tions on an Ital­ian Jew­ish Fam­i­ly and Exile
Eleanor Foa
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A Book­shop in Berlin: The Redis­cov­ered Mem­oir of One Woman’s Har­row­ing Escape from the Nazis
Françoise Frenkel (auth.), Stephanie Smee (trans.), Patrick Modiano (fwd.)
Essay

From Psalms to Milosz: My Jour­ney through Poetry

Yonatan Berg
February 10, 2020
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