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- Today's top voted Memoirs. Nonfiction #1 voted by our readers. By ChloeChang BRONZE Stanford, California.
50 Short Memoirs - Examples of Narrative Personal Essays by Famous Authors The best examples of short memoir, narrative personal essays, reflective essays and creative nonfiction by famous writers Life. Scars by David Owen The Same River Twice by David. What exactly are short memoirs? I define them as essay-length works that weave together life experiences around a central theme. You see examples of short memoirs all the time on sites like Buzzfeed and The New York Times. Others are stand-alone pieces published in essay collections. Memoir essays were my gateway into reading full-length memoirs.
After Life by Joan Didion - In the aftermath of her husband’s death, Didion meditates on the fragility of life
Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes by David Foster Wallace - I grew up inside vectors, lines and lines athwart lines, grids - and, on the scale of horizons, broad curving lines of geographic force
Three by David Sedaris - A trio of the best Sedaris stories including The Youth in Asia, Jesus Shaves and Giant Dreams, Midget Abilities
Peculiar Benefits by Roxane Gay - Until visiting Haiti, I had no idea what poverty really was or the difference between relative and absolute poverty
Mirrorings by Lucy Grealy - An outstanding essay that describes the author’s changing self image as she went through years of reconstructive facial surgery
Scars by David Owen - A life in injuries
The Kingdom of Snow and Ghosts by Michael Chabon - There may never again be a tedium so wretched and marvelous as that produced by television in the heyday of the aerial
Dead Man Laughing by Zadie Smith - “My father had few enthusiasms, but he loved comedy.”
Patient by Rachel Riederer - Two of the tires are sitting on my left leg, and my right leg is wedged into the little crevice between the pairs
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Mistakes Were Made, Errors Happened by Karl Taro Greenfeld - I was looking for a soft future and didn’t see any reason why a kid like me wouldn’t find his way in the Tokyo summer