When Ursula Pike, a member of the Native American Karuk Tribe, joined the Peace Corps in her twenties, she had high ideals.
INTERVIEW: Ursula Pike, Author of An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir
Category: Articles
REVIEW: Graceland, At Last: Notes On Hope and Heartache From the American South by Margaret Renkl
In an essay collection that is digestible yet poignant, readers are invited to consider new perspectives.
REVIEW: Saved at the Seawall: Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift by Jessica DuLong
The maritime community’s response on 9/11 shows ordinary people can offer respect, assistance, and kindness to help through the worst crisis.
REVIEW: I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales): Notes from a Soviet Girl on Becoming an American Woman by Margarita Gokun Silver
Using a hybrid form, the comic memoir-in-essays chronicles the author’s journey from girl who left Moscow to completely assimilated American.
REVIEW: In Defense of Ska by Aaron Carnes
Through history, interviews, and personal anecdotes, the book rekindles love for a genre that flamed out as quickly as it appeared.
REVIEW: The Other Mothers by Jennifer Berney and The Trying Game by Amy Klein
Two books examine challenges women face having a baby: an LGBTQ memoir one and a second combining memoir and advice.
CRAFT: Deep Dialogue: Writing Principles That Go Beyond the Nuts n’ Bolts by Michelle Sydney Levy
Transposing taught me more about the structure of natural spoken language than any advice on the subject of writing good dialogue….
INTERVIEW: Ron Hogan, Author of Our Endless and Proper Work
Ron Hogan offers insight into why writers write, and why it’s worth it to keep writing, whether you ever get published or not.
REVIEW: The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book by Megan Culhane Galbraith
Galbraith’s remarkable hybrid memoir focuses on the adoptee experience from both a personal and historical perspective.
REVIEW: Face: A Memoir by Marcia Meier
Reconstruction by surgery in Face aligns beautifully with reconstruction of memory and personal history through writing,
