Posts Tagged ‘ memoirs ’

Tessa Brown

Tessa Brown
Tessa Brown is a writer and educator living in Michigan. She is at work on a novel, The Nights, and writes a blog, Hiphopocracy.

Looking for Zion in All the Wrong Places

March 14, 2013
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Emily Raboteau’s insightful new memoir, Searching for Zion, begins with a memory of her father, a black Princeton professor, describing blacks’ and Jews’ similarities to her childhood best friend, Tamar: “When we sang freedom songs about the ancient Israelites,” he told the Jewish girl, “we linked ourselves to you. Our people have much…

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Data: A Love Story

March 6, 2013
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Amy Webb, in-demand internet consultant and math whiz had experienced one too many disastrous JDates. After…

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Life (and Music) after Death

July 24, 2012
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Is listening to music a religious experience? The autobiographical book Automatic: Girls, Death, and R.E.M.,…

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An American Childhood in Egypt

June 1, 2012
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Sipping from the Nile, a new memoir, tells…

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Hard to Hear

March 22, 2012
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“Being the hearing child of deaf parents,” says…

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Revolutionary Youth

January 27, 2012
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Shmarya Levin was born in Russia in 1867. A politician…

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Six Little Words

December 22, 2011
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Can you tell your life story in six…

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Our Ancestors, Ourselves

December 7, 2011
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“When my father died,” writes Nancy Miller, “I…

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Home on the Range

August 19, 2011
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Imagine Little Women meets All-of-a-Kind Family, with a hint–just a hint–of Anna Karenina.…

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