Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide by Juliet Patterson is part-investigation, part- memoir, part-ecological, and pure poetry.
INTERVIEW: Juliet Patterson, Author of SINKHOLE: A Natural History of a Suicide
Category: November-December 2022
REVIEW: The Year Of The Horses: A Memoir by Courtney Maum
The memoir explores the author’s journey out of depression and the wider issue of women looking for something to carry them forward in uncertain times.
REVIEW: Halfway From Home: Essays by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
An artful variation of essay forms and poetic language mark this artfully written collection.
REVIEW: When They Tell You to Be Good by Prince Shakur
Shakur’s memoir is a meditation on multiple identities and their place in the larger American society,
REVIEW: The Loneliest Places: Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey Home by Rachel Dickinson
A meditative style and use of metaphor elevates the memoir to a study of what nature can teach us about ourselves and our relationships.
WRITING LIFE: I Want to Be Adored by Kristen Paulson-Nguyen
I feel the ache of wanting my students to like me.
CRAFT: Writing Emotional and Environmental Grief by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
“In many ways, memoir grieves a life that no longer exists.” — Sarah Fawn Montgomery on writing about loss.
CRAFT: How to Leave an Essay by Suzanne Farrell Smith
Deciding when and how to leave an essay is hard. You don’t want to drag on, but you don’t want to “dismount too early.”
WRITING LIFE: My Reckoning with Reading by Maryam Keramaty
…the writer and the reader inside me just weren’t getting along.
INTERVIEW: J. Michael Lennon, author of Mailer’s Last Days: New and Selected Remembrances of a Life in Literature
J. Michael Lennon’s literary identity has been intertwined with that of legendary writer Norman Mailer for more than a half century.
