The American medical system is examined from the dual perspectives of patient and health-care worker.
REVIEW: Cost of Living: Essays by Emily Maloney
Category: Articles
REVIEW: Odyssey of Ashes: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Letting Go by Cheryl Krauter
The sport of fly fishing becomes the mechanism for processing grief following the loss of author Cheryl Krauter’s husband.
REVIEW: Work Hard, Not Smart: How to Make A Messy Literary Life by Alexis Paige
Combining memoir and explorations of craft, the book is for those who value writing at its most chaotic and honest.
REVIEW: Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Victoria Chang
Letters, found art and photographs are used to explore loss, preserve memories and explore identity.
INTERVIEW: Galit Atlas, Author of Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
Atlas draws on the emotional power of her patients’ stories and her own experiences to illuminate how inherited family trauma affects our lives.
INTERVIEW: Suzanne Roberts, Author of Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties
I wanted this book to be a hybrid book–a book that defies classification, because I don’t think our grief can be easily classified.
WRITING LIFE: How Writing in Community Rocked My Writing by Laura Sturza
In 2015, I’d reached a turning point in my writing life and realized a group might help me start my first book.
CRAFT: What’s the Difference Between Memoir and Personal Essay? by Suzanne Farrell Smith
What’s the Difference Between Memoir and Personal Essay? Suzanne Farrell Smith explores this popular question.
WRITING LIFE: Finding Motivation, Line by Line by Samantha Paige Rosen
I kept promising myself that when X happened, I’d devote more time to creative writing.
INTERVIEW: Judy Bolton-Fasman, Author of Asylum: A Memoir of Family Secrets
Judy Bolton, girl detective, embarks on the life-long exploration of her bifurcated ancestry.
