How does the writer fashion a memoir in the absence of life experiences recalled?
Review: The Memory Sessions by Suzanne Farrell Smith
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: The Virgin of Prince Street by Sonja Livingston
…in search of comfort and perhaps a few answers to the quandaries of midlife, Livingston returns to her childhood church of Corpus Christi…
Review: Meander Belt: Family, Loss, and Coming of Age in the Working-Class South by M. Randal O’Wain
Uniting a storyline from a collection of disparate essays using the chronology of memoir requires a combination of artful talent and a confident pluck with narrative craft.
Review: Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Castillo first crossed the border with his family when he was five years old. Just before leaving Mexico, he went temporarily blind…
Review: In the Country of Women by Susan Straight
“Country” is a Southern California story and an American diaspora story – but ultimately it’s most deeply a women’s story.
Review: Stamford ’76 by JoeAnn Hart
The murder of Margo might seem like the beginning of a Law and Order episode at first glance…
Review: How to Survive Death and Other Inconveniences by Sue William Silverman
I think it’s safe to say that Sue William Silverman thinks about death more than you or I…
Review: Self-Ish: A Transgender Awakening, by Chloe Schwenke
It seems unbelievable at first that a woman with her job experience would find herself struggling to stay employed.
Book Review in Prayer Form: The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid by Ronna Russell
By Amy FishHeavenly Father (the Jewish one), thank you for bringing to me The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid by Ronna Russell (April 2019, Black Rose Writing) for review. At first, I thought it would be tricky, given that I have no background knowledge of this faith, but I quickly got caught up in…
Review: Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents Edited and With an Introduction by Lise Funderburg
Lise Funderburg has collected diverse stories of parenthood and childhood, of love, loss…
