A meditative style and use of metaphor elevates the memoir to a study of what nature can teach us about ourselves and our relationships.
REVIEW: The Loneliest Places: Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey Home by Rachel Dickinson
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WRITING LIFE: I Want to Be Adored by Kristen Paulson-Nguyen
I feel the ache of wanting my students to like me.
CRAFT: Writing Emotional and Environmental Grief by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
“In many ways, memoir grieves a life that no longer exists.” — Sarah Fawn Montgomery on writing about loss.
CRAFT: How to Leave an Essay by Suzanne Farrell Smith
Deciding when and how to leave an essay is hard. You don’t want to drag on, but you don’t want to “dismount too early.”
WRITING LIFE: My Reckoning with Reading by Maryam Keramaty
…the writer and the reader inside me just weren’t getting along.
INTERVIEW: J. Michael Lennon, author of Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
J. Michael Lennon’s literary identity has been intertwined with that of legendary writer Norman Mailer for more than a half century.
INTERVIEW: Alan Henry, author of Seen, Heard and Paid: The New Work Rules for the Marginalized
Seen, Heard, and Paid is more than a guide for marginalized employees. It’s also an inspiring narrative of a journalist and editor…
INTERVIEW: Sarah Fawn Montgomery, author of Halfway From Home
Throughout this nonlinear collection, Montgomery explores how we try to preserve our lives in things—in our homes, our forests, our oceans, our bodies.
REVIEW: A Cheerleader’s Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment: a memoir in essays by MB Caschetta
The memoir in essays chronicles the author’s journey to find meaning through some of the most devastating events of our time.
REVIEW: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery by Linda Murphy Marshall
A childhood home and the hidden meaning of family language are translated into insights about the memoirist’s past.
