I’m a creature known as a working writer… I am also a creature known as a literary writer.
WRITING LIFE: Confessions of a Working Writer by Penny Guisinger
Category: Articles
INTERVIEW: J. Michael Lennon, editor of Norman Mailer: The Sixties
Any writer of nonfiction or memoir owes a debt to Mailer, who pioneered techniques that came to define nonfiction, memoir and the New Journalism.
How to Write a Review of the Shell Game: A REVIEW of The Shell Game, edited by Kim Adrian
It is best, when writing a book review of The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, to be an active reader of the book.
REVIEW: A Beautiful and Terrible Thing by Jen Waite
As the title states, what a beautiful and terrible book!
Review: An American (Homeless) in Paris by Chris Ames
Everybody, sometimes, wants to give the middle finger to society and just be left alone. I understand…
WRITING LIFE: Rejection and Resilience by Jennifer Case
I would graduate in a few months. I was supposed to be joyous. Yet I was not.
CRAFT: Striking the Balance: On Showing and Telling by Nicole Breit
Effective storytellers know there’s more to a day’s work than writing a through-line from Point A—inciting incident—to Point B—resolution.
Review: Circadian by Chelsey Clammer
Chelsey Clammer … uses experimental lyric essay forms to explore loss, trauma, and grief…
Review: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay holds nothing back, and you have to appreciate her stark honesty.
Review: Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
Girl is a tell-it-like-it-is books of the “lies” about her life that Hollis had to face and the ways she overcame them.
