Written with honesty and grit, the memoir overturns stereotypes about addiction and recovery.
REVIEW: Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins
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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.
REVIEW: Writing While Parenting by Ben Berman
The challenges of maintaining a writing life while parenting are the focus of an essay collection that also is a meditation on the writing craft.
REVIEW: Conversations with Birds by Priyanka Kumar
The book offers a reflection on the natural world and examines the experience of birding on the author’s life and identity.
WRITING LIFE: Ode to My Notebook by Ellen Frank Bayer
There is no comment, no judgment and no frowns, only a blank page with blue lines.
INTERVIEW: Alice Hattrick, Author of Ill Feelings
Ill Feelings tells the story of how women are often labeled “hysterical” and waved off by the medical profession.
