The book begins on 9/11. Gilliam is co-piloting a regional flight from Newark to Boston, waiting for clearance from the tower.
REVIEW: Cleared for Takeoff: A Pilot’s Memoir of Purpose and Resilience After 9/11 by Captain Nia Gilliam
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Unstuck: 101 Doorways Leading from the Blank Page to the Last Page by Ramona Ausubel
Instead of focusing on strict outlines or formulaic story structures, Ausubel organizes the writing process into four distinct phases.
REVIEW: Unbelonging: A Life In Search of Home by Catherine Jagoe
Unbelonging explores Jagoe’s long struggle of feeling “perpetually in between and never quite home.
REVIEW: The End of My Life is Killing Me by Annabelle Gurwitch
Funny cover notwithstanding, the book isn’t about a Pollyanna-ish approach to cancer.
REVIEW: Divergent Writers: Disability, Illness, Neurodivergence, and Ableism in Creative Writing, Edited by Christie Collins and Saul Lemerond
This is a reference text every creative writing instructor should have.
REVIEW: 52 Writing Prompts: Inspiration for the Creative Writer by Suzanne Roberts
This is the first prompt book in years that made me set it down mid-chapter — not out of boredom but because I had to go write…
REVIEW: Say Nephew by Steven Pfau
“Pfau’s gay uncle, Bruce, was much, much more than a cliché …”
REVIEW: The Problem Drinker by Kyle Kouri
The Problem Drinker took me on one heck of a ride.
REVIEW: Sifting the Feminine: Essays on a Woman’s Body by Ashley Anderson
A collection of essays examining Anderson’s relationship to her body and her chronic illness in a post-Roe world.
REVIEW: Brother Epistles: A Sister’s Memoir by Shanda McManus
Shanda McManus reflects on a life without her younger brother Monir, who was murdered in a drive-by shooting in 1992.
