Throughout the book, Knopp is braiding, raveling. She braids past with present and future.
REVIEW: Ravelings: Essays on Love, Loss, and Wonder by Lisa Knopp
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An archive of our reviews of memoirs, essay collections, and other works of creative nonfiction.
REVIEW: Hide and Sikh: Letters from a Life in Brown Skin by Sunny Dhillon
The hiding Sunny Dhillon speaks of in the title of his deceptively charming, but searingly frank memoir, begins right out of the gate, in the preface.
REVIEW: This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience by Blair Glaser
Glaser excels at world-building, using vivid imagery and evocative sensory description to conjure the environment of the ashram….
REVIEW: Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire by Anastasiia Fedorova
A hybrid memoir with a sociological framework that interrogates the paradox between private expressions of sexuality and their depictions in larger culture.
REVIEW: The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere by Nicholas Triolo
In the opening pages, Nicholas Triolo describes the scene of his collapse at the finish line of the Western States 100.
REVIEW: Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love by Zefyr Lisowski
Culturally, we don’t often associate horror movies with helping us to live through our traumatic experiences.
REVIEW: The Company of Owls: A Memoir by Polly Atkin
In The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin weaves together themes of isolation, chronic pain, and the restorative power of quiet observation.
REVIEW: Trying: A Memoir by Chloe Caldwell
On its surface, this is a memoir about the time Caldwell spent “trying” for a baby, but as with all the best memoirs, it’s so much more than that.
REVIEW: Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson
There are books that understand something fundamental about place, not just as backdrop…but as a living force that shapes us.
REVIEW: Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag by Michael Anthony and Chai Simone
I cracked open Just Another Meat-Eating Dirtbag without preconceived notions of what a graphic memoir could or should be
