REVIEW: The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History by Claudia Acevedo-Quiñones March 8, 2024 The Hurricane Book by Claudia Acevedo-Quiñonesis a hybrid memoir and history of her family and Puerto Rico Read the full story →
REVIEW: The Sky Was Falling: A Young Surgeon’s Notes on Bravery, Survival, and Hope by Dr. Cornelia Griggs February 3, 2024 A surgical resident’s memoir of the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic is an uncompromising account from healthcare’s front lines. Read the full story →
INTERVIEW & REVIEW: Sue William Silverman, Author of Acetylene Torch Songs February 3, 2024 There’s a difference between truth and fact. Sure, we can’t just make stuff up, so CNF is rooted in actual experience. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways by Brittany Means January 8, 2024 The memoir reconstructs the author’s complicated past, ordering a life of contradictions amid the fallibility of memory. Read the full story →
REVIEW: A Petit Mal: A Mother’s Healing Love Song by Ana María Caballero January 8, 2024 The prize-winning memoir pushes the boundaries of the creative nonfiction form as a mother examines her child’s seizure disorder. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year by Kerri ní Dochartaigh January 8, 2024 The memoir offers a fragmented, lyrical exploration of the natural world, the idea of home, motherhood, and surviving the unknown. Read the full story →
REVIEW: All Things Edible, Random and Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food by Sheila Squillante December 11, 2023 Food is the narrative thread used to make sense of grief, past relationships and family in this lyrical collection. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness edited by Diane Gottlieb December 11, 2023 The voice of the body and the need to listen to it runs through this essay collection. Read the full story →
REVIEW: incurable optimist: living with illness and chronic hope by Jennifer Cramer-Miller November 8, 2023 The memoir chronicles the author’s decades-long journey battling a life-threatening autoimmune disorder. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Love in the Archives: A Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss by Eileen Vorbach Collins November 8, 2023 The memoir in essays is a heartbreaking chronicle of a teenage daughter’s death by suicide. Read the full story →