It was critical to the narrative to capture what it was like to be a child and experience what I did.
INTERVIEW: Deborah Derrickson Kossmann, Author of Lost Found Kept: A Memoir
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INTERVIEW: Teresa Wong, Author of the Graphic Memoir, All Our Ordinary Stories
Sometimes I joke that making a graphic is probably the hardest, longest way to write a book.
CRAFT: Thinking, Writing, Selling Your Naughty Thoughts by Ralph Greco Jr.
Naughty stuff, a political screed, a recipe, an email — it all comes down to you.
CRAFT: Using Book Publicity to Deepen the Author-Reader Relationship by Gina DeMillo Wagner
In the months leading up to the publication of my debut memoir, Forces of Nature, I was already feeling twinges of burnout.
REVIEW: Exit the Body by Heather Bartel
In Exit the Body, Heather Bartel presents nine provocative, mind-bending, genre-fluid essays on the nature of identity, personhood, womanhood, and more.
REVIEW: All the Beauty in the World by Patrick Bringley
In his exquisite debut memoir Patrick Bringley walks us through—quite literally—the decade he spent as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
INTERVIEW: Brian Lee Knopp, Author of Dreams I’m Never Gonna See
Brian Lee Knopp is not so much confiding in the readers of his new essay collection, as he is inviting us to conspire.
INTERVIEW: Eiren Caffall, Author of The Mourner’s Bestiary
“I can’t be on the barricades in the way that I might have been able to when I was really healthy. I can write books.”
From the Archives: A New Year Round-up by D. Nicholas Penglase
We’ve gathered five pieces from our archives which explore ideas of change, new beginnings, and the ways in which we let go, or carry with us, the past.
REVIEW: The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn
Review by Sara PisakThe Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on Altered Sight by Naomi Cohn functions as an encyclopedic guided tour through Cohn’s diagnosis and worsening eyesight. Accompanying her on this tour is an unlikely companion, the inventor of braille, Louis Braille. Together Cohn and Braille offer the reader a unique understanding of their lived experiences.…
