Vincent Crapanzano grew up in the 1940s on the grounds of a psychiatric institution where his father worked as a resident physician.
Review: Recapitulations by Vincent Crapanzano
Category: Articles
Review: The Ghosts Who Travel With Me: A Literary Pilgrimage Through Brautigan’s America by Allison Green
Allison Green’s memoir begins on the road in Idaho, where she and her partner Arline are following in the tire tracks of Richard Brautigan…
Review: Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola
“How did we get home last night? Do you have any idea what happened to my jeans? Why is there a corn dog in my bed?”
Interview: Kevin Oderman, author of Cannot Stay: Essays on Travel
Kevin Oderman had recently returned from Italy when I interviewed him for Hippocampus – an appropriate segue to discussing his recently released book Cannot Stay: Essays on Travel.
The Writing Life: A Conference Junkie Discovers Another Option in ASJA By Donna Talarico
Anyone who knows me, knows I love learning. Outside of earning other degrees, taking non-credit courses, or attending writing workshops, one of the best methods of professional development is attending industry conferences. From 2010 to 2015, while I worked in higher education, I attended more than 20 conferences – and had a speaking role at…
Interview: A Conversation with Lisa Carver, author of 25 Lives
One of the many startling things about writer and performer Lisa Carver is her willingness to speak candidly with total strangers who fixate on her from afar.
Review — Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own by Kate Bolick
Like any good book, Spinster is many things, but it is in large part an effort to replace our fundamentally negative description of the single woman …
Review: Hollywood Notebook by Wendy C. Ortiz
Ortiz, a 30-year-old living alone for the first time in a long time, records thoughts upon returning to live in Southern California.
Review — Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home by Jessica Fechtor
Without a doubt, the ability to produce head-clutching prose is a testament to Fechtor’s skills as a writer.
Interview: Sarah Einstein, author of Mot: A Memoir
by Lori M. Myers, Senior Interview EditorSeveral years ago, writer Dinty W. Moore offered Sarah Einstein some good advice: Marriage is like writing, he said. You need to show up at your writing desk and at your marriage desk. There’s more to this, which Einstein writes about in her essay “What Therefore Dinty Has Joined…
