Elissa Altman shares the creative wisdom she gained from the painful experience of releasing her first memoir, which is a gift to the reader.
INTERVIEW: Elissa Altman, Author of Permission: The New Memoirist and the Courage to Create
Category: Articles
INTERVIEW: Bonny Reichert, Author of How to Share An Egg
Amy Fish speaks with Bonny Reichert, author of the culinary memoir, How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty.
INTERVIEW: Marty Ross-Dolen, Author of Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter’s Search for Truth
Told with a poet’s precision for language, and a novelist’s eye for storytelling, Marty Ross-Dolen takes a slightly unconventional approach to this memoir.
INTERVIEW: Michelle Yang, Author of Phoenix Girl: How a Fat Asian with Bipolar Found Love
A staunch and highly vocal advocate, Michelle Yang has made a name for herself in the national conversation about bipolar disorder
REVIEW: Held Together by Rebecca N. Thompson
Rebecca N. Thompson presents a broad spectrum of experiences and a diverse group of women from different backgrounds and nontraditional families.
REVIEW: Human/Animal: A Bestiary in Essays by Amie Souza Reilly
Human/Animal is an ambitious, braided essay collection that resists easy answers.
REVIEW: Everything is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder by Cara Gormally
Cara Gormally delivers a quietly radical graphic memoir that explores how trauma embeds itself in the body, mutates into perfectionism.
REVIEW: What My Father and I Don’t Talk About, Edited by Michele Filgate
Perhaps I was foolish to review this beautiful collection—my father died when I was 14, and the weight of what he and I can’t talk about is ever-present….
CRAFT: Not Too Small to Matter: Using Form and Structure to Create Meaning by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
I was told my tales were unimportant. I was told little girls should be seen and not heard.
INTERVIEW: Suzanne Cope, Author of Women of War: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis
We would call them feminists today. I don’t know if all four would have used that exact term, but they all really fought for women’s rights.
