OCD constitutes more than a tendency to organize meticulously your email folders, or always put the remote in the same place on the table.
Review: Same Time Next Week — True Stories of Working Through Mental Illness, edited by Lee Gutkind
Category: Articles
Interview: Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year
Tasked with answering Salinger’s fan mail, [Rakoff] took it upon herself to humanize him through the responses she wrote to his admirers…
Interview: Lori A. May, Author of The Write Crowd
Literary citizenship essentially boils down to community engagement—what writers, readers, and other booklovers can do to support the literary community in their own backyards, nationally, and beyond.
Review: What I Know For Sure (audio) by Oprah Winfrey
While promoting the movie Beloved in 1998, Oprah was interviewed by Gene Siskel. And the (now-late) film critic stumped her.
Review: My First Novel — Tales of Woe and Glory edited by Alan Watt
… the anthology features more than 20 writers of varying genres and backgrounds and their stories, as the title suggests, of woe and glory.
Review: Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
Dunham’s new memoir, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” (Random House, 2014), is equal parts horrifying and hilarious.
CRAFT: One More Gift — From “By Heart” by Risa Nye
In the waning days of the holiday season, I’d like to share three of these pearls with Hippocampus readers.
Writing Life: Leaving Your Bad Neighborhood by Elizabeth Gaucher, Guest Columnist
I won’t say we can’t be fit and healthy, but I can say we aren’t exactly known for those characteristics. We are stereotyped as pasty, tortured, intellectual, deeply troubled people with a penchant for alcohol.
Flipped Interview: The Hippocampus Staff Answers Instead of Asks — Behind the Scenes at an Online Literary Magazine
Usually we ask the questions. We inquire the minds of memoirists, authors, agents, publishers, editors and other literary professionals.
Review: Never Can Say Goodbye – Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York, edited by Sari Botton
If you’ve ever been pick-pocketed by a junkie, or roomed with an artist who painted with his own blood and semen, or watched two rats fight over human feces, then I have a must-read for you.
