Category: May-June 2023

REVIEW: Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent

Clarkisha Kent’s memoir Fat Off, Fat On is conversational, snarky, sarcastic, casual, funny, and raw.

I could feel the first pages viscerally, the looming evil of a destructive faith present in the author’s youth as it had been in mine.

The essay collection transports readers from the ordinary to the extraordinary with powerful writing encompassing a breadth of emotions.

“I really wanted to be expansive and a little weird and just create a more overwhelming or kind of a sensory overload experience.”

We speak with Kelly McMasters, author of The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays.

Once Our Lives by Qin Sun Stubis is a multi-generational memoir of growing up in China in the 1950s and 1960s.

An interview with Vicki DeArmon, publisher at Sibylline Press for Women Authors Over Fifty.

Sara Judith Gelt’s memoir Reckless Steps Toward Sanity grapples with risk taking, parenting, depression, and growing up Jewish in Denver.

I woke up…to a barrage of text messages from friends… It was 10 a.m., and I was contextless.

You are talking—it’s not really your fault that to everyone besides Ma, Baba and me, your sounds don’t hold meaning.

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