“…something bright and acidic that cut through the jumble of bitter pain.”
WRITING LIFE: Making Preserved Lemons Out of Lemons by Kat Read
Category: Articles
CRAFT: On Revealing Secrets in Our Stories by Nicole Breit
My wife and I are standing in a grocery store aisle—no kids, no other distractions—when I own up.
Review: Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents Edited and With an Introduction by Lise Funderburg
Lise Funderburg has collected diverse stories of parenthood and childhood, of love, loss…
Review: How We Fight For Our Lives by Saeed Jones
Saeed Jones chronicles his path toward self-realization and self-acceptance with astonishing grace…
Review: Edna’s Gift: How My Broken Sister Taught Me to Be Whole by Susan Rudnick
As a woman diagnosed with MRKH, my editor was eager to send me her book to review, and I was eager to read it.
Review: These Boys and Their Fathers by Don Waters
The … memoir brings to mind Frankenstein’s creature: assembled from parts; shouldn’t be alive; yet lives and invokes great compassion.
Review: If I Don’t Make It, I Love You: Survivors in the Aftermath of School Shootings edited by Amye Archer and Loren Kleinman
I’d been to war, but nothing I had ever gone through even comes close to what these survivors went/are still going through.
CRAFT: 14 Tips for Interviewing Authors by Sarah Boon
…interviewing an author isn’t as simple as picking up the phone and talking—there’s a lot of preparatory work…
WRITING LIFE: Redefining Failure After a Brain Injury by Brooke Knisley
Before 2015, procrastination was the name of my game…
Reviews of Three Adoption Memoirs: All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung; and Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe by Lori Jakiela; An Adoptee Lexicon by Karen Pickell
With its built-in interrogation of what it means to belong to a family, adoption offers a rich context for memoir.
