I'm looking for a good read about bicycle randonneuring, in English or French. [more inside]
posted on Feb 22, 2008 - 12 answers

Help me find literature written about life in prisons, work camps, concentration camps etc. [more inside]
posted on Feb 7, 2008 - 39 answers

I'm planning to co-author a book with a semi-famous person who wants to tell her own story, but needs help with the writing part. My biggest question is about money - how should we split it? It's her story, but I'll be doing most of the writing. Yet we are attempting to treat this as a real collaboration where we edit together, pass drafts back and forth, and so forth. Any sense of what percentage is appropriate for each of us? Also, should I join the Writers Union to get help with this type of question? I'd like to join on principal but I'm your classic broke writer, so the dues feel prohibitive. Thanks!
posted on Dec 10, 2007 - 3 answers

A family member (40-year-old woman, married, has a 6-year old) really enjoyed Eat, Pray, Love. I’d like to give her another book she’s likely to enjoy, but since she is already aware of current bestsellers, I’d like to get her something older or more obscure. Are there any classic memoirs, which are likely to appeal to this reader? [more inside]
posted on Nov 20, 2007 - 20 answers

What are your favorite autobiographies? For the purposes of this discussion, I'm including "autobiographies" that were written collaboratively (like Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X) or that were straight up written by someone else (like Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas). The point is, the book is written from the point of view of the subject and it's (ostensibly at least) non-fiction. [more inside]
posted on Sep 30, 2007 - 57 answers

I've really enjoyed reading 'Memo from David O. Selznick' - can anyone suggest something in a similar line ? [more inside]
posted on Jul 21, 2007 - 4 answers

Author/Title? Comic memoir about Jewish childhood in pre-WWII tenements in NYC. [more inside]
posted on Feb 23, 2007 - 28 answers

I am looking for true tales of adventure, preferably memoirs. Here are some examples I've already enjoyed: Apsley Cherry-Garrard's "The Worst Journey in the World", Thomas Cochrane's "Autobiography of a Seaman", and Ernie O'Malley's "On Another Man's Wound" and "The Singing Flame". Priorities are quality of writing, closeness of the writer to the events being described, and extremity of the adventures.
posted on Feb 6, 2007 - 57 answers

I'd like to find a description, either fictional or an actual account, of a mental breakdown. [more inside]
posted on Jan 18, 2007 - 44 answers

How to (tactfully and successfully) get some major names to look at some of my writing? Of course there is [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2006 - 18 answers

How would you publish an anonymous memoir?
posted on Jan 11, 2005 - 9 answers