Two books examine challenges women face having a baby: an LGBTQ memoir one and a second combining memoir and advice.
REVIEW: The Other Mothers by Jennifer Berney and The Trying Game by Amy Klein
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CRAFT: Deep Dialogue: Writing Principles That Go Beyond the Nuts n’ Bolts by Michelle Sydney Levy
Transposing taught me more about the structure of natural spoken language than any advice on the subject of writing good dialogue….
INTERVIEW: Ron Hogan, Author of Our Endless and Proper Work
Ron Hogan offers insight into why writers write, and why it’s worth it to keep writing, whether you ever get published or not.
REVIEW: The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child’s Memory Book by Megan Culhane Galbraith
Galbraith’s remarkable hybrid memoir focuses on the adoptee experience from both a personal and historical perspective.
REVIEW: Face: A Memoir by Marcia Meier
Reconstruction by surgery in Face aligns beautifully with reconstruction of memory and personal history through writing,
WRITING LIFE: Writing Class Ruined Me for Social Reentry by Andrea Askowitz
For a second, I think these women are with me.
REVIEW: Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America by Kate Washington
Washington proves that familial caregiving is taken for granted by doctors, necessary for patients’ recovery, and frequently devastating.
REVIEW: Anything Will Be Easy after This: A Western Identity Crisis by Bethany Maile
Bethany Maile confronts the fabled American West with a sharp journalistic eye and deep personal insight.
REVIEW: Crossing the River: Seven Stories that Saved My Life by Carol Smith
The wisdom Carol Smith renders from these experiences reads like a gripping “how to” on coping with loss.
REVIEW: Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice Wong
Disability Visibility allows those who are disabled to speak for and represent themselves.
