Murphy’s details of farm life paint the reader a vibrant picture, so real that one may question whether or not to buy a goat…
Review: Dirty Chick: Adventures of an Unlikely Farmer by Antonia Murphy
Category: Reviews
An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
Review: Leaving the Pink House: A Memoir by Ladette Randolph
The house had potential, but needed to be gutted to achieve it…
Review: The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander’s memoir The Light of the World is a story told in pieces—a written collage, or whatever the literary equivalent might be of Russian nesting dolls.
Review: The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum
Writer Meghan Daum … suspects her own book will be equally loved and hated. The Unspeakable contains 10 personal essays on a variety of topics from dogs to Joni Mitchell.
Review: Starve the Vulture by Jason Carney
Jason Carney’s debut memoir, Starve the Vulture is a book even the most avid haters of memoir could love.
Review: Writing Beat and Other Occasions of Literary Mayhem by John Tytell
The book reads as a collage of Tytell’s impressive stories of interviewing and writing about the Beats and writers such as Ezra Pound, Norman Mailer, and Henry Miller…
Review: Same Time Next Week — True Stories of Working Through Mental Illness, edited by Lee Gutkind
OCD constitutes more than a tendency to organize meticulously your email folders, or always put the remote in the same place on the table.
Review: What I Know For Sure (audio) by Oprah Winfrey
While promoting the movie Beloved in 1998, Oprah was interviewed by Gene Siskel. And the (now-late) film critic stumped her.
Review: My First Novel — Tales of Woe and Glory edited by Alan Watt
… the anthology features more than 20 writers of varying genres and backgrounds and their stories, as the title suggests, of woe and glory.
Review: Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
Dunham’s new memoir, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” (Random House, 2014), is equal parts horrifying and hilarious.
