The Hunger Book, which includes recipes, is an unforgettable meditation on motherhood and addiction, resilience and love.
INTERVIEW: Agata Izabela Brewer, Author of The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland
Category: November-December 2023
REVIEW: All Things Edible, Random and Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food by Sheila Squillante
Food is the narrative thread used to make sense of grief, past relationships and family in this lyrical collection.
REVIEW: Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness edited by Diane Gottlieb
The voice of the body and the need to listen to it runs through this essay collection.
INTERVIEW: Jami Nakamura Lin, Author of The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir
In The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir, Jami Nakamura Lin pushes the boundaries of craft as she struggles with the loss of her father.
CRAFT: You’re Writing for Search Engines, Too: SEO Tips for Writers by Donna Talarico
Writers are wordsmiths; but, there’s a distinction between writing for a literary audience and writing for the web….
INTERVIEW: Janna Marlies Maron, Founding Editor of Under the Gum Tree, on Coordinating AWP Offsite Events
We speak to Janna Maron about organizing CNF-infused offsite events at the annual AWP conference.
INTERVIEW: Clancy Martin, Author of How Not to Kill Yourself: A Portrait of a Suicidal Mind
If the line of work you’ve chosen involves emotional sensitivity, you have to be very careful with yourself.
INTERVIEW: Kathryn K. Abdul-Baki, Author of Dancing Into the Light: An Arab-American Girlhood in the Middle East
The book only goes to a certain point in my life, to where the lights went out in my life, and then restarted.
REVIEW: incurable optimist: living with illness and chronic hope by Jennifer Cramer-Miller
The memoir chronicles the author’s decades-long journey battling a life-threatening autoimmune disorder.
REVIEW: Love in the Archives: A Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss by Eileen Vorbach Collins
The memoir in essays is a heartbreaking chronicle of a teenage daughter’s death by suicide.
