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By STEVE PFARRER

Noche Trist: A Memoir of AnorexiaBy Robert RadinIbidem/Columbia University Press A few years ago, Robert Radin, the the director of citizenship and immigration services for Jewish Family Service in Springfield, wrote a memoir about his experience...

By STEVE PFARRER

When the World Didn’t EndBy Guinevere TurnerCrown Reading Guinevere Turner’s affecting coming-of-age memoir, “When the World Didn’t End,” you’re left with one thought in particular: How did this woman endure years of emotional and psychological trauma...

By STEVE PFARRER

When Andrew Leland was diagnosed as a teenager with retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a degenerative eye disease that gradually causes most of its carriers to go blind, the problem seemed very distant.Sure, he had trouble seeing at night; starlight, in fact,...

By STEVE PFARRER

Five years ago, Jarrett J. Krosoczka, already an acclaimed children’s book author and illustrator, took his career to the next level with “Hey, Kiddo,” a graphic novel/memoir in which he shared poignant and often painful details from his childhood and...