Brian Evenson is the author of over a dozen books included Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Bookmarked.
Interview: A Q&A With Brian Evenson—author What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Category: Articles
Review: Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home by Lara Lillibridge
Complicated is an apt description of the family relationships that Lillibridge chronicles in her book.
Review: Maps Are Lines We Draw: A Road Trip through Haiti by Allison Coffelt
Coffelt’s slim, 137-page volume tells the story of her trip to Haiti – a journey ten years in the making.
Review: The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
What Vanasco does in her book is way more compelling than filling in what she doesn’t know: she experiments with form by shattering the story into shards…
WRITING LIFE: Writing My Way Out by Jonathan Freeman-Coppadge
My writing career peaked at age seven. I had been hunched over my dad’s Apple IIc for weeks, clad in my pajamas…
CRAFT: The United Stigma of America by Tyler Grimm
We need to be compassionate to ourselves, and then we must be compassionate to those we write about.
Review: Theology of My Life by John Frame
Five-decade seminary professor John Frame’s Theology of My Life (Cascade Books, 2017) is a self-proclaimed theological and apologetic memoir.
REVIEW: A Woman Is A Woman Until She Is A Mother by Anna Prushinskaya
A Woman Is A Woman Until She Is A Mother examines the interconnection of womanhood and motherhood.
Writing Life: Falling in Love with Monsters: On Memoir and Unconditional Love by Tawni Waters
As I’ve delved more…deeply into other great memoirs, and into life in general, I’ve realized that no person, if observed closely, could ever come out on the other end of scrutiny looking anything other than messy,
CRAFT: The Trauma Museum by Tyler Grimm
We are all intimate with grief and trauma. What it feels like, how it slices into us…
