When a story is dismissed as cliché, trite and uninteresting, it’s easy to redirect the indictment to oneself.
WRITING LIFE: Through Line by Katie McDougall
Category: May-June 2024
PROFILE: Jeannine Ouellette, Author of The Part That Burns & Creator of Writing in the Dark
Part of my desire to profile [Jeannine] sprang from my curiosity to dissect what she’s doing that’s unique and effective and that differentiates her from others in her field.
INTERVIEW: Barrie Miskin, Author of Hell Gate Bridge
It’s summer 2016 when Barrie Miskin decides to go off her low-dose antidepressant in order to conceive
INTERVIEW: Kyo Maclear author of Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets
Kyo Maclear is the only child of a Japanese mother and British Canadian father. Or that’s what she understood for her first 49 years.
INTERVIEW: Jessica Fein, Author of Breath Taking: A Memoir of Family, Dreams & Broken Genes
There is a lot of loss in [Breath Taking by Jessica Fein], but you’ll be surprised by how much love, joy, hope, and even humor is also there.
INTERVIEW: Molly Giles, Author of Life Span: Impressions of a Lifetime Spent Crossing and Recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge
A conversation with Molly Giles, author of Life Span: Impressions of a Lifetime Spent Crossing and Recrossing the Golden Gate Bridge.
REVIEW: I Sing to Use the Waiting by Zachary Pace
I found an immediate connection with Zachary Pace…. Even though we have vastly different experiences, we both have experienced being an outcast and floundering…
REVIEW: Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History by Margaret Juhae Lee
Although Margaret Juhae Lee was born in the United States and raised in Houston, she never felt at home.
REVIEW: American Mother by Colum McCann with Diane Foley
As a fan of Colum McCann’s fiction, I was anxious to read his first nonfiction book. I was not disappointed.
REVIEW: Thunder Song: Essays, by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
What pushes Sasha LaPointe’s essays to another level are the themes distinctive to her individual story as an Upper Skagit and Nooksack Indian Tribe punk rocker.
