On Tuesdays, old Appalachian men swarm the Kroger parking lot. In pairs, the old men wear polo shirts or plaid button-ups in primary colors.
Grocery Stories by Shaun Turner
Code Grey by Caroline Siegrist
My first night as chaplain. Paramedics rush a gurney through the automatic doors of the ER, the patient’s body flying like a luger down an icy track.
REVIEW — Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack by Mary Cappello
Cappello’s almanack…positions itself as a way station of mood: a resting place where writer and reader both might try to make sense of moods, even though life might break the mood at any time.
REVIEW: Pretend I’m Not Here: How I Worked with Three Newspaper Icons, One First Lady, and Still Managed to Dig Myself Out of the Washington Swamp by Barbara Feinman Todd
The first half of Todd’s memoir is an unhackneyed, sometimes comic, always engrossing account of her apprenticeship.
REVIEW: Immersion: A Writer’s Guide to Going Deep by Ted Conover
…Immersion gives a lively and thoughtful introduction to the field of immersion journalism or immersion nonfiction.
Interview: David Ewald, creative nonfiction editor at Eclectia Magazine and its anthology, Best Nonfiction Volume One
With more than two decades behind it, Eclectica Magazine was certainly a pioneer in the online magazine space.
REVIEW: Concrete Carnival by Danner Darcleight
Danner Darcleight is a promising writer, a devoted friend, and a loving husband. He is also a convicted murderer…
The Saturday Before and After the Wednesday In Between by Joe Oswald
The convenience store is five blocks from home. I stop there often after work, and the manager smiles at me when I enter because I’m one of those husbands who after filling up with gas, stops in for soda, snacks, or anything else…
A Field Guide to Motel Chairs by Doug Brewer
I am peering through my camera at an empty chair next to a mostly empty motel swimming pool.
Elixir Washes Ashore by Alexis Paige
A year since we bought the house along the river and weeks since it rained. But now, thunderstorms crackle the edges of sky…
