On Youth and Family: Essay and Memoir

Annabelle Gurwitch‘s new hysterically funny and slylyinsightful essay collection is Wherever You Go, There They Are: Stories About My Family You Might Relate To. In her debut essay collection, Would Everybody Please Stop?: Reflections on Life and Other Bad Ideas, humorist and performer Jenny Allen reports from the potholes midway through life’s journey. With sidesplitting commentary, Steve Rushin creates a vivid picture of the 70s, a decade of wild youth, cultural rebirth, and the meaning of parental, brotherly, sisterly, whole lotta love, in his memoir Sting-Ray Afternoons.