Steve Fisher is a reliable narrator, full of honesty.
REVIEW: American Boomer by Steven Fisher
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems by Adrie Kusserow
It’s a gift to learn from others’ disciplines—and discipline—from their careful, thoughtful study and observation.
REVIEW: Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon
[Ariel] Gordon creates an intimacy with the reader that makes us sit up and take notice…”
REVIEW: Hell Gate Bridge: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness, and Hope by Barrie Miskin
Hell Gate Bridge is an apt metaphor. Miskin’s symptoms were many, severe, and disorienting.
REVIEW: Take Back the Magic: Conversations With the Unseen World by Perdita Finn
After Finn’s father died, she received her inheritance in the mail: a small jet-black rock circled by twisted iron rods….
REVIEW: I Sing to Use the Waiting by Zachary Pace
I found an immediate connection with Zachary Pace…. Even though we have vastly different experiences, we both have experienced being an outcast and floundering…
REVIEW: Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History by Margaret Juhae Lee
Although Margaret Juhae Lee was born in the United States and raised in Houston, she never felt at home.
REVIEW: American Mother by Colum McCann with Diane Foley
As a fan of Colum McCann’s fiction, I was anxious to read his first nonfiction book. I was not disappointed.
REVIEW: Thunder Song: Essays, by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
What pushes Sasha LaPointe’s essays to another level are the themes distinctive to her individual story as an Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian Tribe punk rocker.
REVIEW: The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris, One Lesson at a Time by Jane Bertch
The French Ingredient is a testimony for the magic that ensues when you’re willing to embrace the unknown.
