What pushes Sasha LaPointe’s essays to another level are the themes distinctive to her individual story as an Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian Tribe punk rocker.
REVIEW: Thunder Song: Essays, by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
Category: Articles
INTERVIEW: Michelle Ephraim, Author of Green World
Michelle’s delivery is everything you want in a memoir: chatty, warm but makes you think.
INTERVIEW: Kristine S. Ervin, Author of Rabbit Heart: A Mother’s Murder, A Daughter’s Story
Rabbit Heart was a slow write, a slow journey. I wrote at a slow pace and I haven’t let go of that pace.
INTERVIEW: Ona Gritz, Author of Everywhere I Look: A Memoir
I read Everywhere I Look in a single sitting, and I hadn’t done that in years. It is both detective story and memoir and utterly entrancing.
INTERVIEW: Erin Zimmerman, Author of Unrooted: Botany, Motherhood, and the Fight to Save an Old Science
We’re at a time of unprecedented awareness of science on the part of the public.
CRAFT: Happy Birthday Book (And Me) by Morgan Baker
A year ago, I was turning 65 and sending my debut memoir out into the world at the same time.
WRITING LIFE: The Small, Accessible World of Publishing by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
One woman, a quintessential Lutheran church lady, described her writing process. Every Sunday while she curls her hair, she composes a haiku.
REVIEW: The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris, One Lesson at a Time by Jane Bertch
The French Ingredient is a testimony for the magic that ensues when you’re willing to embrace the unknown.
REVIEW: First Love: Essays on Friendship by Lilly Dancyger
[This collection] begins with a title essay so moving, complex, and powerful that I had to put the book down just to let the work settle…
WRITING LIFE: Deadlines > Doors: Writing Can Happen Anywhere by Annabelle Tometich
Learning to write as a journalist felt like being tossed into a raging cauldron.
