I had my black family and my white family, and I talk about the black side of town and the white side of town.
INTERVIEW: Shannon Luders-Manuel, Author of The One Who Loves You
Category: Articles
INTERVIEW: Caroline Eden, Author of Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels
For this memoir, I wanted to bring the reader into my home, and to Edinburgh where I live.
INTERVIEW: Jill Bialosky, Author of The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother
As a writer and a reader, I’m searching for truth, honesty, ways of making sense of difficult experiences.
REVIEW: Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin
Lin unleashes the full breadth of his research skills, unraveling the history of same-sex unions and the marriage equality movement…
REVIEW: Son of a Bird by Nin Andrews
“Son of a bird” was what Andrews’s Black nanny called her when she’d been naughty.
REVIEW: It All Felt Impossible: 42 Years in 42 Essays by Tom McAllister
McAllister pulls off something wonderful, connecting ordinary life moments to the larger political and cultural perspectives of the time….
REVIEW: Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Freidan, Mailer by David Denby
Fairly presenting the event-laden, controversy-crammed lives of this talented quartet…is a task that would intimidate…any sensible biographer.
From the Archives: A Mother’s Day Round-Up — Creative Nonfiction About Moms by D. Nicholas Penglase
Five creative nonfiction pieces which explore the diverse range of relationships and experiences we have with our mothers.
CRAFT: Now What? How Patience & Building Relationships Can Pay Off for CNF Writers by Angel R. Ackerman
Writing is as much about waiting as it is about words.
INTERVIEW: Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of Reading the Waves
Organized in 15 nonlinear, braided essays, Reading the Waves by Lidia Yukanatich is about holding on and letting go. Mostly letting go.
