Memoir in Essays | Prepub Alert, February 2025 Titles

Alton Brown, star of the Food Network’s Good Eats; award-winning Edgar Gomez; and Pushcart Prize–nominated essayist Theresa Okokon explicate their lives through essays.

Brown, Alton. Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations. Gallery. Feb. 2025. ISBN 9781668064214. 304p. $28.99. MEMOIR

Bestselling Brown, star of the Food Network’s Good Eats and author of several Good Eats cookbooks, turns to essays as he ruminates on a wide range of culinary questions, great meals, and his personal and professional lives.

Gomez, Edgar. Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays. Crown. Feb. 2025. ISBN 9780593728543. 256p. $28. MEMOIR

Award-winning Gomez (High-Risk Homosexual) writes a memoir in essays that explore his path out of poverty, the scam of the American dream, the reality of Florida, and queer expression.

Okokon, Theresa. Who I Always Was: A Memoir. Atria. Feb. 2025. ISBN 9781668008959. 288p. $28.99. MEMOIR

Okokon, a Pushcart Prize–nominated essayist, debuts with an essay collection that ponders questions of grief, family, abandonment, Blackness, African spirituality, and coming of age.

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