My sworn enemy, the laptop battery, reminded me I had ninety minutes to write this.
WRITING LIFE: Guerrilla Writing by Gary Smothers
Category: Articles
INTERVIEW: Tania Richard, Author of Black Girl from a White Suburb: Finding My Light, Using My Voice
While her life as an actress is fascinating, her point of view about what it’s like to be the only black person in the room as a child is a voice that is necessary.
INTERVIEW: Peter Mendelsund, Author of Exhibitionist
Exhibitionist is at once a memoir — a journal — and an art book.
INTERVIEW: Robin Hemley, Author of How to Change History: A Salvage Project
Robin Hemley reminds us that life is just as equally absurd as it is heartbreaking, as silly as it is serious….
INTERVIEW: Jennifer Pastiloff, Author of Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your Life
An extraordinary listen/read in its simplicity and its depth, Proof of Life imparts meaning simultaneously obvious and revelatory.
CRAFT: Using the Lesson of the Rose to Write Detail as Narrative by Ellen Blum Barish
Too much detail can distract your reader and slow the pace of the action.
WRITING LIFE: Publishing and Infertility by Amy Gallo Ryan
There’s a well-worn trope in the literary world that publishing a book is an act of creation analogous to producing a human life.
REVIEW: Body: My Life in Parts by Nina B. Lichtenstein
Nina Lichtenstein reckons with middle age, menopause, and the uncertainty of health and wellness in this phase of life.
REVIEW: No Offense: A Memoir in Essays by Jackie Domenus
No Offense is a coming-out memoir that details the many twists and turns Jackie experiences as they grapple with their own authentic identities
REVIEW: Crafting the Lyric Essay: Strike a Chord by Heidi Czerwiec
Crafting the Lyric Essay serves as a kind of hybrid craft book and anthology of the lyric essay, and I can’t recommend it enough.
