Terese Marie Mailhot reflects on the challenges of negotiating the gap between the ugly truth and the art she hopes to make out of it
Review: Heart Berries: A Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
Category: Articles
Review: Finding Stillness in a Noisy World by Jana Richman
Richman explores the sanctity and desire for solitude in fifteen essays on varying topics…
Review: When History Is Personal by Mimi Schwartz
Among Schwartz’s most thought-provoking pieces is “In The Land of Double Narrative.”
CRAFT: Truth is Elusive — The Art of the Suppose by Beth Kephart, a special to Hippocampus Magazine
[Editor’s note: This essay was excerpted from Beth Kephart’s Aug. 25 opening address at HippoCamp 2018, Hippocampus Magazine’s annual conference for creative nonfiction writers.] We live in a truth-imperiled world. We live among fakers and relativists, liars and cheats, embellishers and subjectivists. We live afraid that the truth could be anything, or will remain forever…
WRITING LIFE: How Not to Get an MFA – A Step by Step Guide by Ann Klotz
For some, the idea of pursuing an MFA degree is overwhelming, complicated, or impossible.
WRITING LIFE: On Envy and Faith by Wendy Fontaine
Lately, scrolling through Facebook and Twitter makes me feel like a literary loser.
CRAFT: Let’s Get Graphic: A Look at the Visual Essay by Nicole Breit
…consider these ten “visual” approaches to writing short-form memoir.
Review: The Year of No Summer: A Reckoning by Rachel Lebowitz
This is not a collection of stories, essays or fairy tales, though it has elements of all three.
Review: The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
Trauma Cleaner is part-memoir, part-biography, all character study.
Review: When We Were Ghouls by Amy E. Wallen
The slow, marked, deliberate pace of this memoir is a gift.
