Grace Talusan
Grace Talusan teaches nonfiction writing at Brown University and serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle. She is the author of The Body Papers, which won the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, her memoir, The King Died of Grief, is forthcoming in 2026 with Restless Books.
Interviews with Grace Talusan
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
by Arundhati Roy -
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Memorial Days: A Memoir
by Geraldine Brooks -
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Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
by Beth Macy -
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Shattered: A Memoir – Honest Hospital Dispatches on Physical Loss, Parenthood, and Finding Hope, Gratitude, and Love
by Hanif Kureishi -
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A Truce That Is Not Peace
by Miriam Toews
The Best Memoirs: The 2026 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist, recommended by Grace Talusan
The Best Memoirs: The 2026 NBCC Autobiography Shortlist, recommended by Grace Talusan
We asked Grace Talusan—the critic, memoirist, and chair of the National Book Critics Circle autobiography committee—to talk us through their shortlist of the best new memoirs: from the “novelistic” winning book by Arundhati Roy to journalist Beth Macy’s hard-hitting examination of her struggling Ohio hometown.
