Elizabeth Alexander’s memoir The Light of the World is a story told in pieces—a written collage, or whatever the literary equivalent might be of Russian nesting dolls.
Review: The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander
Category: Articles
Review: The Unspeakable by Meghan Daum
Writer Meghan Daum … suspects her own book will be equally loved and hated. The Unspeakable contains 10 personal essays on a variety of topics from dogs to Joni Mitchell.
Craft: Bone Heap — On Returning to One’s Own Work by Donna Steiner
Any writer who has been at it for a while knows what throwaways are, although you might have another name for them. Exercises, warm-ups, unfinished pieces, maybe the ever-optimistic “works in progress.”
The Writing Life: A Case of the Mondays by Kevin Finley, guest columnist
At an October 2014 concert in Minneapolis, Ryan Adams leaned into the microphone and joked, “I have a case of the Mondays.”
Review: Starve the Vulture by Jason Carney
Jason Carney’s debut memoir, Starve the Vulture is a book even the most avid haters of memoir could love.
Review: Writing Beat and Other Occasions of Literary Mayhem by John Tytell
The book reads as a collage of Tytell’s impressive stories of interviewing and writing about the Beats and writers such as Ezra Pound, Norman Mailer, and Henry Miller…
Review: Same Time Next Week — True Stories of Working Through Mental Illness, edited by Lee Gutkind
OCD constitutes more than a tendency to organize meticulously your email folders, or always put the remote in the same place on the table.
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.
