The experimental memoir combines research, reflections on belonging, and a variety of essay forms in the author’s exploration of her past.
REVIEW: Curing Season: Artifacts by Kristine Langley Mahler
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REVIEW: The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and Fabrications by Aaron Angello
Each of the words in Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29 becomes a prompt for the entries in this collection of short prose pieces.
REVIEW: Under My Bed and Other Essays by Jody Keisner
The nuances of life’s subtle and private forms of fear are masterfully explored in the essay collection.
REVIEW: Writing While Masked: Reflections on 2020 and Beyond
In Writing While Masked: Reflections on 2020 and Beyond a group of writers from Washington document their experiences in essays, prose, and poetry.
REVIEW: Ways of Walking: Essays, edited by Ann deForest
The essay collection offers a brief walk in someone else’s shoes, placing the walker into wider contexts of family, society and landscape.
REVIEW: Quagmire: Personal Stories from Iraq and Afghanistan edited by Donald Anderson
The collection offers multiple perspectives of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, told in short essays by soldiers, sisters, scholars, lovers and more.
REVIEW: Dreadful Sorry: Essays on an American Nostalgia by Jennifer Niesslein
Americans’ affinity for nostalgia becomes a personal exploration of family, race and memories in this thoughtful essay collection.
REVIEW: Big Reader: Essays by Susan Olding
A life-long love of books and her personal connections to specific works are explored by a master essayist.
REVIEW: A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays edited by Randon Billings Noble
The anthology showcases different forms of the lyric essay, offering insights to inspire readers and motivate writers.
REVIEW: Telephone: essays in two voices by Brenda Miller and Julie Marie Wade
The collection reads like life itself with the simple unpredictable connection of every moment.
