Category: March-April 2023

INTERVIEW: Mary Helen Stefaniak, Author of The Six-Minute Memoir

I hate to call the essays upbeat, because a lot of them are about serious and sad things. But they still somehow convey that I’m alive and well…

I didn’t understand that nonfiction can be every bit as creative and nuanced.

When I first started writing, it wasn’t supposed to be a book.

Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God…

…writing doesn’t require smoking, buckets of cash or polyester

Like many authors … of creative nonfiction, I’m both inspired by and often turn to ephemera as “original source material.”

The memoir examines a generational legacy of suicide, its impact on those left behind, and society’s attitudes about those who end their lives.

Written with honesty and grit, the memoir overturns stereotypes about addiction and recovery.

A writer’s writer explores identity and what it means to be a woman in an essay collection that is funny, dark, and heartbreaking.

A master memoirist mines ordinary life and spins it into prose revealing meaning in the passage of time.

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