Dorsey Nunn never forgot the question a friend asked him on the day he walked out of San Quentin Prison.
REVIEW: What Kind of Bird Can’t Fly: A Memoir of Resilience and Resurrection by Dorsey Nunn
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: A Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief by B.J. Hollars
When someone is alive and healthy, it is easy to think you have all the time in the world to say everything you need.
REVIEW: American Boomer by Steven Fisher
Steve Fisher is a reliable narrator, full of honesty.
REVIEW: The Trauma Mantras: A Memoir in Prose Poems by Adrie Kusserow
It’s a gift to learn from others’ disciplines—and discipline—from their careful, thoughtful study and observation.
REVIEW: Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon
[Ariel] Gordon creates an intimacy with the reader that makes us sit up and take notice…”
REVIEW: Hell Gate Bridge: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness, and Hope by Barrie Miskin
Hell Gate Bridge is an apt metaphor. Miskin’s symptoms were many, severe, and disorienting.
REVIEW: Take Back the Magic: Conversations With the Unseen World by Perdita Finn
After Finn’s father died, she received her inheritance in the mail: a small jet-black rock circled by twisted iron rods….
REVIEW: I Sing to Use the Waiting by Zachary Pace
I found an immediate connection with Zachary Pace…. Even though we have vastly different experiences, we both have experienced being an outcast and floundering…
REVIEW: Starry Field: A Memoir of Lost History by Margaret Juhae Lee
Although Margaret Juhae Lee was born in the United States and raised in Houston, she never felt at home.
REVIEW: American Mother by Colum McCann with Diane Foley
As a fan of Colum McCann’s fiction, I was anxious to read his first nonfiction book. I was not disappointed.
