The first time I heard about shaping a piece was early in graduate school.
CRAFT: Shape Is the Thing by Suzanne Farrell Smith
Category: September-October 2021
WRITING LIFE: Overcoming Editorial Aversions to 9/11 by Elizabeth Moroney
9/11 has ruined the narrative arc, and our craft should reflect that.
INTERVIEW: Gina Frangello, author of Blow Your House Down: A Story of Family, Feminism, and Treason
There’s no question that economic, intellectual, and cultural class all play major roles in both my book and in my own development.
INTERVIEW: Jill Louise Busby, Author of Unfollow Me
Jill Louise Busby (more affectionately known as jillisblack) is a writer and filmmaker critiquing, imploding, and barrel-laughing at our personal and communal hierarchies…
INTERVIEW: Ursula Pike, Author of An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir
When Ursula Pike, a member of the Native American Karuk Tribe, joined the Peace Corps in her twenties, she had high ideals.
REVIEW: Graceland, At Last: Notes On Hope and Heartache From the American South by Margaret Renkl
In an essay collection that is digestible yet poignant, readers are invited to consider new perspectives.
REVIEW: Saved at the Seawall: Stories from the September 11 Boat Lift by Jessica DuLong
The maritime community’s response on 9/11 shows ordinary people can offer respect, assistance, and kindness to help through the worst crisis.
REVIEW: I Named My Dog Pushkin (And Other Immigrant Tales): Notes from a Soviet Girl on Becoming an American Woman by Margarita Gokun Silver
Using a hybrid form, the comic memoir-in-essays chronicles the author’s journey from girl who left Moscow to completely assimilated American.
REVIEW: In Defense of Ska by Aaron Carnes
Through history, interviews, and personal anecdotes, the book rekindles love for a genre that flamed out as quickly as it appeared.
