[Amanda] has just been introduced to the term limerence — an intense infatuation, an obsessiveness, or an unfulfilled longing…
REVIEW: When Longing Becomes Your Lover by Amanda McCracken
Category: Articles
REVIEW: No Contact: Writers on Estrangement, Edited by Jenny Bartoy
I’ve been in group therapy, officially, twice in my life. I count reading No Contact as an unofficial third round.
WRITING LIFE: Notes on a Debut: Engaging Community Through a Book Launch by Melanie Pappadis Faranello
Connecting people through self-expression is something I care deeply about.
WRITING LIFE: 20 Minutes of Daily, Focused Freewriting is Responsible for My Sanity By Helene Kiser
I admire writers who have the stamina to spend daily disciplined hours on their writing. That’s not me.
INTERVIEW: Jayne Anne Phillips, Author of Small Town Girls: A Writer’s Memoir
As for the question of small-town girls, they are underestimated.
INTERVIEW: Mandi Fugate Sheffel, Author of The Nature of Pain: Roots, Recovery & Redemption Amid the Opioid Crisis
Talking about my name gave me an entry point to describe my parents and my crippling shyness.
INTERVIEW: Emily Rapp Black, Author of I Would Die If I Were You: Notes on Art and Truth-Telling
If you didn’t love, you wouldn’t grieve.
INTERVIEW: Sarah Hoover, Author of The Motherload: Episodes from the Brink of Motherhood
Postpartum depression (PPD) is so stark — I thought my story would be more compelling if there were some entertainment value to it as well.
CRAFT: The Things I Carried Out of Suburbia: Using Classic Structure to Write Memoir by Lori Lackland
Some of us don’t write just to document; we write to survive.
CRAFT: An Erasure Essay is Really Just a Mixtape by Kristine Langley Mahler
A mixtape is a compilation telling the narrative you want to tell.
