Close to the Bone: Memoirs of Hurt, Rage, and Desire

As the memoir eclipses fiction, here is the first anthology to define this burgeoning genre. In "Close to the Bone", award-winning critic Laurie Stone has created an astonishing anthology of memoirs in which eight acclaimed writers go about the risky business of telling their own secrets, scouting the territories of sex, the family, loneliness, the city, addiction and AIDS.