“Dave Eggers wrote a remarkable memoir, but its afterlife was even more extraordinary.”
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I Was Born Missing an Ear. To the World, It Was a Problem to Fix
“Surgeons promised to make me whole. No one asked what I wanted.”
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The Invisible Man
“We see right through the unshowered soul living in a car by the beach, or by the side of the road. But he’s there, and he used to be somebody. He still is.”
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The Bullet in My Mother’s Head
“In 1987, she survived her own murder. Thirty-seven years later, a son investigates the mystery that defined his life before it even began.”
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Harmony
“You can practice a song a thousand times and still its first note sends you into the unknown.”
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Salman Rushdie: “The world has abandoned realism”
“’Words are the only victors,’ Rushdie wrote in his last novel, ‘Victory City.'”
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Featuring standout reads from Ian Urbina, Hanif Abdurraqib, Sallie Tisdale, Brad Rassler, and Adam Reiner.
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Mere Belief
“One of the pivotal purposes of memoir is to unveil the shades of meaning that exist in what we believe.”
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Off Camera
“So I tiptoed through life, aware that my obsessive enthusiasm could set people off like a bomb.”