Imagine A Door is so much more than a craft book for writers. It’s a powerful reminder of a fundamental truth and right: everyone is a writer.
REVIEW: Imagine a Door by Laura Stanfill
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy by Elizabeth A. DeWolfe
In a well-paced narrative, Elizabeth A. DeWolfe shows what happened in Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy
REVIEW: Thank You for Staying With Me: Essays by Bailey Gaylin Moore
Bailey Gaylin Moore’s essay collection, Thank You for Staying with Me is full of wonder and sharp observations,
REVIEW: Almanac: A Murmuration by Christine Gelineau
Christine Gelineau is a helluva writer, and Almanac is her masterpiece.
REVIEW: Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Sarah Fawn Montgomery has a way with words. In her memoir of mini-essays, Abbreviate, she uses them in unique and startling ways.
REVIEW: Frontier: A Memoir & a Ghost Story by Erica Stern
Frontier seamlessly blend[s] fiction with memoir with research in the most artful and imaginative manner.
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.
