When one of his students asks how much one can “make up” when writing an essay, writer Paul Crenshaw replies, “Nothing…”
REVIEW: This One Will Hurt You by Paul Crenshaw
Category: Articles
REVIEW: The Enjoy Agenda: At Home and Abroad by Rick Bailey
The forty essays in this slim collection span decades and move freely through time, memory association, and geography.
REVIEW: The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayétu Moore
Moore was five…when her family was forced to evacuate Monrovia, walking for three weeks, until they reached a village near the Sierra Leone border.
REVIEW: Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon
Everything on the cover Vernon’s memoir screams confident, proud, fearless… the image fits her so well that it would be easy to think she’d always been this way…
REVIEW: What’s Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She by Dennis Baron
The lack of a gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun in English has been debated for centuries…
REVIEW: Man in the (Rearview) Mirror by LaRue Cook
The essays span the experience of what you’d expect from an Uber driver: the drunk passengers, teenage moviegoers, and travelers returning home from the airport…
REVIEW: Don’t Go Crazy Without Me by Deborah Lott
At some point in our growing up, we begin to untangle our identities from those of the adults around us…
WRITING LIFE: Finishing Proud by E. Dolores Johnson
I felt like quitting, but black and brown writers had warned me to expect white people not to get it.
Interview: Sejal Shah, Author of This Is One Way to Dance
I spoke with Sejal Shah while we were both on home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic about her essay collection, This Is One Way to Dance.
CRAFT: How to Revise and Share Writing About Trauma in a Safe(r) Way by Yolande House
I’ve developed some guidelines to help you revise and share drafts of deeply personal writing with others in a safer way.
