Frontier seamlessly blend[s] fiction with memoir with research in the most artful and imaginative manner.
REVIEW: Frontier: A Memoir & a Ghost Story by Erica Stern
Category: Articles
REVIEW: The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood by Kristen Martin
At 14, Martin and her brother were orphans.
REVIEW: The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex by Melissa Febos
The writing in The Dry Season is smart and funny, and it blooms on the page like acres of flowers.
REVIEW: Because I Knew You: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed a Doctor’s Soul by Robert Macauley
This is a book that insists we look closely at what most people would rather not see.
REVIEW: Shattered: A Memoir by Hanif Kureishi
Shattered: A Memoir starts with Hanif Kureishi recounting the accident that changed his life.
REVIEW: The Boat Not Taken: A North Korean Daughter and Her Mother’s Story by Joanna Choi Kalbus
In The Boat Not Taken, the author deftly, honestly, and vividly pieces together the known facts of her widowed mother’s life….
INTERVIEW: Sarah Boon, Author of Meltown: The Making and Breaking of a Field Scientist
To do her work, Boon must battle the threats of polar bears and patriarchal systems alike.
INTERVIEW: Jennifer Crystal, Author or One Tick Stopped the Clock
One Tick Stopped the Clock by Jennifer Crystal chronicles her struggle with Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.
WRITING LIFE: Fit Submitting into Your Writing Life (Without Totally Losing It) by Benjamin Davis
Submitting to lit mags is, you might say, the absolute worst.
CRAFT: Turning Your Story into Art by Anne Gudger
My first draft/not draft of my memoir was pretty much me typing up my journals….
