No doubt I was drawn to writing about mental illness because of my family circumstances.
INTERVIEW: Meg Kissinger, Author of While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence
Category: January-February 2023
He Said, I Said by Cindy Dean Jones
I am seeing someone else and we are done, he announced, over the phone.
I’m OK by Harrison Reed
When the world shut down, we made Old Fashioneds.
REVIEW: Writing While Parenting by Ben Berman
The challenges of maintaining a writing life while parenting are the focus of an essay collection that also is a meditation on the writing craft.
WRITING LIFE: Stuckness by Brett Ann Stanciu
I was way more broke beyond a car that wouldn’t start.
INTERVIEW: Tanya Frank, Author of Zig-Zag Boy: A Memoir of Madness & Motherhood
Zig-Zag Boy by Tanya Frank is a collective book, giving voice to all families who have experienced this often terrifying and jarring experience.
REVIEW: Dragons in my Classroom: A Teacher’s Memoir by Barbara Kennard
The challenges of a teaching career in the United States and in England are explored in this richly detailed memoir.
REVIEW: Drawing Breath: Essays on Writing, the Body, and Loss by Gayle Brandeis
Essays exploring life’s losses, transformations and the challenges of being a memoirist comprise a graceful and lyrical collection.
REVIEW: The Preventorium: A Memoir by Susan Annah Currie
A long-forgotten American health crisis caused by tuberculosis is examined in a memoir of a childhood forever changed by the disease.
REVIEW: Sacred Sendoffs: An Animal Chaplain’s Advice… by Sarah A. Bowen
An animal chaplain examines our relationship with many creatures – from those who provide us with food to those who become our pets.
