The nuances of life’s subtle and private forms of fear are masterfully explored in the essay collection.
REVIEW: Under My Bed and Other Essays by Jody Keisner
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REVIEW: Hysterical by Elissa Bassist
Women’s pain and the silencing of their voices are among the topics explored with both humor and fury in Elissa Bassist’s memoir in essays.
INTERVIEW: Jonathan Alexander, Author of Dear Queer Self: An Experiment in Memoir
Dear Queer Self is an unconventional memoir in which Jonathan Alexander addresses wry and affecting missives to a conflicted younger self.
WRITING LIFE: How to Keep Writing by Katie Bannon
…incorporate a symbolic gesture to signal it’s time to write.
CRAFT: Pedal and Prose: 3 Writing Tips from the Tour by Stephanie Hunt
In this month’s CRAFT column, Stephanie Hunt shares Tour de France-inspired writing tips.
REVIEW: The Green Hour: A Natural History of Home by Alison Townsend
The Green Hour captures the places inhabited by the author, weaving meditative writing about natural beauty with recollections of the mother she lost in childhood.
REVIEW: Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place by Neema Avashia
The beautifully written memoir deftly expands both our knowledge of the writer and our own humanity.
REVIEW: Writing While Masked: Reflections on 2020 and Beyond
In Writing While Masked: Reflections on 2020 and Beyond a group of writers from Washington document their experiences in essays, prose, and poetry.
REVIEW: Ways of Walking: Essays, edited by Ann deForest
The essay collection offers a brief walk in someone else’s shoes, placing the walker into wider contexts of family, society and landscape.
INTERVIEW: Selina Mahmood, Author of A Pandemic in Residence: Essays from a Detroit Hospital
Selina Mahmood’s book felt like…was like to be a resident thrown into a hospital system in a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.
