Everybody, sometimes, wants to give the middle finger to society and just be left alone. I understand…
Review: An American (Homeless) in Paris by Chris Ames
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: Circadian by Chelsey Clammer
Chelsey Clammer … uses experimental lyric essay forms to explore loss, trauma, and grief…
Review: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay holds nothing back, and you have to appreciate her stark honesty.
Review: Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
Girl is a tell-it-like-it-is books of the “lies” about her life that Hollis had to face and the ways she overcame them.
Review: Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home by Lara Lillibridge
Complicated is an apt description of the family relationships that Lillibridge chronicles in her book.
Review: Maps Are Lines We Draw: A Road Trip through Haiti by Allison Coffelt
Coffelt’s slim, 137-page volume tells the story of her trip to Haiti – a journey ten years in the making.
Review: The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
What Vanasco does in her book is way more compelling than filling in what she doesn’t know: she experiments with form by shattering the story into shards…
Review: Theology of My Life by John Frame
Five-decade seminary professor John Frame’s Theology of My Life (Cascade Books, 2017) is a self-proclaimed theological and apologetic memoir.
REVIEW: A Woman Is A Woman Until She Is A Mother by Anna Prushinskaya
A Woman Is A Woman Until She Is A Mother examines the interconnection of womanhood and motherhood.
Review: Writing As a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer and Living an Awakened Life by Albert Flynn DeSilver
Albert Flynn DeSilver defines writers as those who write habitually, not just those who have been published.
