Five-decade seminary professor John Frame’s Theology of My Life (Cascade Books, 2017) is a self-proclaimed theological and apologetic memoir.
Review: Theology of My Life by John Frame
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
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.
Review: Writing As a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life by Albert Flynn DeSilver
Albert Flynn DeSilver defines writers as those who write habitually, not just those who have been published.
Review: All I Want To Do Is Live: A Collection of Creative Nonfiction by Trace Ramsey
Trace Ramsey’s All I Want to do is Live, (Pioneers Press, May 2017), is a hodge-podge of the author’s essays, poetry, creative nonfiction vignettes…
Review: The Analyst: Poems by Molly Peacock
This book deserves a new genre: psychoanalytic poetry memoir.
Review: The Art of Misdiagnosis by Gayle Brandeis
Gayle’s memoir, The Art of Misdiagnosis: Surviving My Mother’s Suicide is a heart-wrenching exploration of grief, motherhood, illness, and wellness.
REVIEW: All the Difference by Patricia Horvath
Patricia Horvath is a bookish college professor much more at home in sedentary pursuits — sitting in her writing chair, tucking away in the library — than in active ones.
REVIEW: Some Bright Morning, I’ll Fly Away by Alice Anderson
As Anderson enters the court system to petition for divorce and custody of her children, it seems like a clear-cut case…
Review: The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
In recent years, scholars…have started to question why and how… “we have come to understand/see/envision the environmental debate as shaped and inhabited primarily by white people.”
Review: Girls Gone Old by Fiona Helmsley
Fiona Helmsley’s Girls Gone Old is a bold and brave memoir of a woman who confronted emergent and continuing female sexuality, addiction, and pop culture.
