“It was not the love of a man that drove me to finally confront my growing waistline;” Amye Archer writes, “rather, it was the leaving of one
Review: Fat Girl, Skinny by Amye Archer
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: White Walls by Judy Batalion
Batalion’s relationship with her mother was thwarted by walls—both the emotional walls of dealing with her mother’s underlying illness and the physical barriers built from piles of junk.
Review: Sober Stick Figure by Amber Tozer
When Amber Tozer was 13, she and her best friend crawled out a window, met two boys at the tennis courts, and passed around a bottle of bourbon until Tozer felt like a superhero.
Review: David Kushner, Alligator Candy
Kushner is a journalist, and as such his writing style is blunt and visceral. He doesn’t shy away from immersing his readers in the experience…
Review: Bookbinder’s Daughter: A Life Lost and Found by Judith A. Fisher
At 15, Judith A. Fisher began stealing her mother’s painkillers. One night, feeling particularly unloved by her parents, she leaves a note and swallows the pills, waking up later in the hospital
Review: Joyce Carol Oates, The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age
…The Lost Landscape has taught me that even literary titans are human beings underneath the hype, and they themselves can get lost when venturing into an unfamiliar genre.
Review: White Matter: A Memoir of Family and Medicine by Janet Sternburg
Janet Sternburg’s White Matter (Hawthorne Books and Literary Arts, 2014) is a memoir of a family torn apart and brought together when two of its six children were given lobotomies.
Review: Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter’s Last Goodbye by Ann Putnam
Putnam’s memoir is an extended account of her parents’ and uncle’s final years together after her father suffers a debilitating stroke.
Review — Write Choices: Elements in Nonfiction Storytelling by Sue Hertz
Write Choices: Elements of Nonfiction Storytelling by Sue Hertz is, as the title suggests, focused on nonfiction storytelling and is perfect for writers who are new to the genre.
Review: Ladies of the Canyons by Lesley Poling-Kempes
Ladies of the Canyons follows the real lives of Victorian women who left the comfort of their homes and ventured into the American Southwest at a time when it was viewed as “exotic…
