Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God…
INTERVIEW: Brandi Larsen & Daniella Mestyanek on Writing UNCULTURED
Category: Articles
WRITING LIFE: Gambling Analogies Fuel My Writing Practice by Carol Milberger
…writing doesn’t require smoking, buckets of cash or polyester
CRAFT: Recovering and Reclaiming Memory by Amy White
Like many authors … of creative nonfiction, I’m both inspired by and often turn to ephemera as “original source material.”
REVIEW: Sinkhole: A Legacy of Suicide by Juliet Patterson
The memoir examines a generational legacy of suicide, its impact on those left behind, and society’s attitudes about those who end their lives.
REVIEW: Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins
Written with honesty and grit, the memoir overturns stereotypes about addiction and recovery.
REVIEW: The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home by S.L. Wisenberg
A writer’s writer explores identity and what it means to be a woman in an essay collection that is funny, dark, and heartbreaking.
REVIEW: Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing by Abigail Thomas
A master memoirist mines ordinary life and spins it into prose revealing meaning in the passage of time.
INTERVIEW: Lotte Latham, Author of Dear Mr. Andrews
Dear Mr. Andrews by Lotte Latham is a memoir about sex work and sugar dating, from Guts Publishing, a feisty independent publisher in London.
INTERVIEW: Rachel Rueckert, Author of East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage
I wrote the shitty first draft. And it was very much the, this is what happened draft.
REVIEW: The Memory of All That: A Love Story about Alzheimer’s by Mary MacCracken
The memoir thoughtfully explores the journey of caring for a spouse with Alzheimer’s disease and the struggle of caregiving.
