Family is of course one of the original myth-making machines.
INTERVIEW: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Author of Touching the Art
Category: Articles
INTERVIEW: Susannah Kennedy, Author of Reading Jane: A Daughter’s Memoir
One of the reasons I’m so drawn to memoir is I learn so much by reading the journeys of others.
INTERVIEW: Suzette Mullen, Author of The Only Way Through is Out
One of the things I’ve learned in this process is the importance of advocating for yourself.
REVIEW: Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways by Brittany Means
The memoir reconstructs the author’s complicated past, ordering a life of contradictions amid the fallibility of memory.
REVIEW: A Petit Mal: A Mother’s Healing Love Song by Ana María Caballero
The prize-winning memoir pushes the boundaries of the creative nonfiction form as a mother examines her child’s seizure disorder.
REVIEW: Cacophony of Bone: The Circle of a Year by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
The memoir offers a fragmented, lyrical exploration of the natural world, the idea of home, motherhood, and surviving the unknown.
INTERVIEW: Susan Kiyo Ito, Author of I Would Meet You Anywhere
In a boundary-breaking memoir Susan Kiyo Ito unveils the truth of her origins.
INTERVIEW: Zachary Pace, Author of I Sing to Use the Waiting
This collection forms a mosaic of Zachary Pace as an individual along with the 1980s-2000s so familiar to many of us.
INTERVIEW: Agata Izabela Brewer, Author of The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland
The Hunger Book, which includes recipes, is an unforgettable meditation on motherhood and addiction, resilience and love.
REVIEW: All Things Edible, Random and Odd: Essays on Grief, Love & Food by Sheila Squillante
Food is the narrative thread used to make sense of grief, past relationships and family in this lyrical collection.
