Writing for the popular film blog The Film Experience, Jose Solís interviews Sue and Saroo Brierley about their favorite moments in Lion, the Oscar-nominated movie adaptation of Saroo’s memoir, A LONG WAY HOME.

Garrard Conley, a survivor of the controversial “ex-gay” therapy movement, describes his traumatic experience as a gay man growing up in the South. In the years following his escape from extreme prejudice, he has learned one important lesson: compassion has the power to heal wounds, but it’s also one of the messiest human emotions.

On February 1st, New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and BuzzFeed announced the launch of “One Book, One New York,” the first ever community reading program for New York City. “

War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir IT’S WHAT I DO will be read by the 2017 incoming Penn State class as part of the Penn State Reads program.

By Wayne Maines, father of Nicole Maines.  The Maines family is the focus of Amy Ellis Nutt’s Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family (Random House, October 2015) Recently I had the opportunity to speak at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, Maine. Before the lecture I spent an hour walking around their beautiful campus, thinking