REVIEW: A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form by Brenda Miller June 6, 2022 Focusing on form, process, and hybridity, creative nonfiction guru Brenda Miller offers guidance and inspiration for writing the lyric essay. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life by Suzanne Ohlmann March 7, 2022 The memoir uniquely explores the space between the facts of our lives and our shadow selves. Read the full story →
REVIEW: South of Somewhere: Wine, Food, and the Soul of Italy by Robert V. Camuto January 11, 2022 In a memoir focusing on place, wine is the unifying theme as the author traces the changes in Southern Italy, his ancestral home. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays by Megan Harlan October 8, 2021 The memoir in essays excavates all the layers of what home is from the perspective of someone whose childhood home was never one place. Read the full story →
REVIEW: Face: A Memoir by Marcia Meier August 2, 2021 Reconstruction by surgery in Face aligns beautifully with reconstruction of memory and personal history through writing, Read the full story →
REVIEW: Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel by Suzanne Roberts June 7, 2021 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. Read the full story →
REVIEW: In the Shadow of the Valley by Bobi Conn September 8, 2020 “Home,” Conn writes early on in her book, “Can anyone define that?….” Read the full story →
Review: The Virgin of Prince Street by Sonja Livingston March 9, 2020 …in search of comfort and perhaps a few answers to the quandaries of midlife, Livingston returns to her childhood church of Corpus Christi… Read the full story →
Review: The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out by William Dameron September 16, 2019 William Dameron writes, “Conversion therapy doesn’t always occur at a facility. Often, it takes place at the dining-room table.” Read the full story →
Review: The Fourth String by Janet Pocorobba March 4, 2019 When a friend sends Pocorobba a magazine ad for free lessons on a traditional Japanese instrument called the shamisen, Pocorobba signs up. Read the full story →