The delight of Fred Amram’s memoir, We’re In America Now, about growing up as an immigrant to America, arriving at age six in 1939, comes entirely from his verve.
REVIEW — We’re in America Now: A Survivor’s Stories by Fred Amram
Category: Articles
Craft: 4 New Ways to Tell Your Stories by Nicole Breit
I discovered what I call CNF’s “outlier forms” a few years ago. I was looking for innovative ways to approach old material…
REVIEW: The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
Everybody knows Batman. We just don’t all know the same Batman. He’s weathered quite a few changes in the past 78 years.
REVIEW: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by 14th Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Abrams
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World (Avery, September 2016), is His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s, gift to the world.
REVIEW: The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness by Elliot Jager
As the heart-wrenching experience of infertility gains more public attention, many of the voices belong to women. But Elliot Jager’s multi-layered memoir, The Pater takes a different tack.
REVIEW — Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack by Mary Cappello
Cappello’s almanack…positions itself as a way station of mood: a resting place where writer and reader both might try to make sense of moods, even though life might break the mood at any time.
REVIEW: Pretend I’m Not Here: How I Worked with Three Newspaper Icons, One First Lady, and Still Managed to Dig Myself Out of the Washington Swamp by Barbara Feinman Todd
The first half of Todd’s memoir is an unhackneyed, sometimes comic, always engrossing account of her apprenticeship.
CRAFT: A Brief Beginner’s Guide by Terrie Duane
Maybe it was three employers within a year or flu three times the same year that proved there would never be a right time for writing.
REVIEW: Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep by Ted Conover
…Immersion gives a lively and thoughtful introduction to the field of immersion journalism or immersion nonfiction.
Interview: David Ewald, creative nonfiction editor at Eclectia Magazine and its anthology, Best Nonfiction Volume One
With more than two decades behind it, Eclectica Magazine was certainly a pioneer in the online magazine space.
