Coffelt’s slim, 137-page volume tells the story of her trip to Haiti – a journey ten years in the making.
Review: Maps Are Lines We Draw: A Road Trip through Haiti by Allison Coffelt
Category: 2018 issues
Review: The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
What Vanasco does in her book is way more compelling than filling in what she doesn’t know: she experiments with form by shattering the story into shards…
WRITING LIFE: Writing My Way Out by Jonathan Freeman-Coppadge
My writing career peaked at age seven. I had been hunched over my dad’s Apple IIc for weeks, clad in my pajamas…
CRAFT: The United Stigma of America by Tyler Grimm
We need to be compassionate to ourselves, and then we must be compassionate to those we write about.
Review: Theology of My Life by John Frame
Five-decade seminary professor John Frame’s Theology of My Life (Cascade Books, 2017) is a self-proclaimed theological and apologetic memoir.
REVIEW: A Woman Is A Woman Until She Is A Mother by Anna Prushinskaya
A Woman Is A Woman Until She Is A Mother examines the interconnection of womanhood and motherhood.
Writing Life: Falling in Love with Monsters: On Memoir and Unconditional Love by Tawni Waters
As I’ve delved more…deeply into other great memoirs, and into life in general, I’ve realized that no person, if observed closely, could ever come out on the other end of scrutiny looking anything other than messy,
Construction with Benefits by Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons
Last summer two unexpected events happened that changed how I weigh my chance at love. First, I discovered that I didn’t fit into the chairs at the Delacorte Theater…
The Color Purple by Kelley Lusk
I remember the glass shattering. Her fist breaching the window, instead of my face—there was red.
Leavings by Connor Ferguson
I harbor a particular fondness for gradual, physical change. I have a brown leather case for my iPhone, and I relish the ghostly patterns slowly developing on it…
