Danner Darcleight is a promising writer, a devoted friend, and a loving husband. He is also a convicted murderer…
REVIEW: Concrete Carnival by Danner Darcleight
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: Liberace’s Filipino Cousin by David Brubaker
At first, I was nervous to read David Brubaker’s Liberace’s Filipino Cousin…. I was nervous because of my own preconceptions…
Review: Writing Hard Stories by Melanie Brooks
… every time she sat down at a computer, the blank page and blinking cursor questioned her: “Why are you writing this story?”
Review — Empire of Cotton: A Global History by Sven Beckert
If you own a couch, a bed, jeans, shirts, t-shirts, towels, sheets, a handkerchief, or even a single pair of socks, then you are in direct contact with cotton.
REVIEW: Shackleton’s Heroes by Wilson McOrist
Sir Ernest Shackleton set out on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition to cross Antarctica in 1914. If you’re savvy to this sort of history, you’ll remember that he never made it.
REVIEW: Body Memory by Joel Peckham
While the cover of the book states: “Essays by Joel Peckham,” these are not the common essays you’d would expect.
REVIEW: Even When Trapped Behind Clouds by Patty Somlo
Patty Somlo was good at packing her sparse belongings in a box, moving to a different city, and beginning a whole new life. It wasn’t until she met her husband, Richard, that she began to question the true meaning of “home.”
REVIEW: The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey Into Manhood
This memoir of an African-American man finding his way is a catalog of stepping stones from childhood to middle age, each footfall landing on the beauty, the sadness, the joy, the mistakes, the second chances.
REVIEW: Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
Dylan’s (Nobel) win encourages a re-examination of his memoir, Chronicles: Volume One (Simon & Schuster, 2005).
Review: I’ll Tell You Mine: Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Program Edited by Hope Edelman and Robin Hemley
I’ll Tell You Mine: Thirty Years of Essays from the Iowa Nonfiction Program is not a “best of collection,” according to its editors
