The essay collection offers a brief walk in someone else’s shoes, placing the walker into wider contexts of family, society and landscape.
REVIEW: Ways of Walking: Essays, edited by Ann deForest
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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.
REVIEW: All the Leavings by Laurie Easter
In this collection the natural world exists as a place of solace where lessons can be learned from natural cycles.
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: Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel by Suzanne Roberts
The essays in Bad Tourist are less about describing the superficial details of someone’s travels than they are about a more intimate set of adventures.
Review: Transmogrified by Travel — Cannot Stay: Essays on Travel by Kevin Oderman
Once you walk into the airport “you’ve already begun to be someone else,” writes Kevin Oderman in his collection of deeply felt meditations on the art of travel
