Dear Queer Self is an unconventional memoir in which Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self.
INTERVIEW: Jonathan Alexander, Author of Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir
Category: July-August 2022
WRITING LIFE: How to Keep Writing by Katie Bannon
…incorporate a symbolic gesture to signal it’s time to write.
CRAFT: Pedal and Prose: 3 Writing Tips from the Tour by Stephanie Hunt
In this month’s CRAFT column, Stephanie Hunt shares Tour de France-inspired writing tips.
REVIEW: The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home by Alison Townsend
The Green Hour captures the places inhabited by the author, weaving meditative writing about natural beauty with recollections of the mother she lost in childhood.
REVIEW: Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia
The beautifully written memoir deftly expands both our knowledge of the writer and our own humanity.
REVIEW: Writing While Masked: Reflections on 2020 and Beyond
In Writing While Masked: Reflections on 2020 and Beyond a group of writers from Washington document their experiences in essays, prose, and poetry.
REVIEW: Ways of Walking: Essays, edited by Ann deForest
The essay collection offers a brief walk in someone else’s shoes, placing the walker into wider contexts of family, society and landscape.
The Dying Room by Leanne Pierce Schneider
When they arrive, she is propped up on pillows in the hospital bed.
Pulses by Kathy Davis
Once, arms waving in frustration, my father said, “If no one’s alive who remembers you, it’s like you never existed.”
Foreign by Terri Lewis
In the seventies, I went to Würzburg, Germany, to perform with the ballet.
