The delight of Fred Amram’s memoir, We’re In America Now, about growing up as an immigrant to America, arriving at age six in 1939, comes entirely from his verve.
REVIEW — We’re in America Now: A Survivor’s Stories by Fred Amram
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture by Glen Weldon
Everybody knows Batman. We just don’t all know the same Batman. He’s weathered quite a few changes in the past 78 years.
REVIEW: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World by 14th Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Abrams
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World (Avery, September 2016), is His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s, gift to the world.
REVIEW: The Pater: My Father, My Judaism, My Childlessness by Elliot Jager
As the heart-wrenching experience of infertility gains more public attention, many of the voices belong to women. But Elliot Jager’s multi-layered memoir, The Pater takes a different tack.
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.
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…
Review: Liberace’s Filipino Cousin by David Brubaker
At first, I was nervous to read David Brubaker’s Liberace’s Filipino Cousin…. I was nervous because of my own preconceptions…
Review: Writing Hard Stories by Melanie Brooks
… every time she sat down at a computer, the blank page and blinking cursor questioned her: “Why are you writing this story?”
