Category: March-April 2022

REVIEW: Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family by Madhushree Ghosh

The memoir deftly braids memories of food and a Bengali upbringing with reflections of how cuisine has informed the writer’s sense of identity…

Melissa Febos combines memoir with compassionate and candid advice on craft in Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative.

A life-long love of books and her personal connections to specific works are explored by a master essayist.

Writer Kristin Keane daringly bends the boundaries of form and craft in a book exploring the loss of her mother.

Double Negative by Claudia Putnam is the winner of Split/Lip’s 2021 Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest.

I still had questions about how to approach sex in memoir, so I asked them to have a conversation about it with me.

From the first pages, Rachel Krantz’s Open, An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy grabs the reader by the throat.

Essays that use a lot of white space are often described as fragmented. But Robert Root uses the term “segmented essay”….

I wait backstage, and I stare down aloneness like a wild animal…

I think you have to define what home feels like to you, and then pursue activities that give you that feeling.

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