T.J. Maxx is not necessarily the type of place where you expect to encounter moments of searing emotional honesty with complete strangers.
Life and Death at the T.J. Maxx by Anna Anderson
Category: August 2018
Gender Rolls: An Academic How-to-Skate Guide for Girls by Lexi Castiglione
Newcomers are not entertained. This notion will dawn on you gracelessly when the Tony Hawk decal on your deck beckons…wheezing laughter….
Onslaught by Kami Westhoff
My mother lost the tip of her finger to the cutting lip of a drill bit when she was six.
A Note is Passed by Jodi Sh. Doff
Written in ink, on a piece of lined paper, ripped out of a spiral notebook, folded seven times, tucked twice into itself, the way we all did in junior high….
The Paddle by Alan N. Yount
My father, in his construction worker dark blue pants and shirt, bends over the bandsaw, shaping a block of pine into a paddle….
WRITING LIFE: On Envy and Faith by Wendy Fontaine
Lately, scrolling through Facebook and Twitter makes me feel like a literary loser.
CRAFT: Let’s Get Graphic: A Look at the Visual Essay by Nicole Breit
…consider these ten “visual” approaches to writing short-form memoir.
Review: The Year of No Summer: A Reckoning by Rachel Lebowitz
This is not a collection of stories, essays or fairy tales, though it has elements of all three.
Review: The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
Trauma Cleaner is part-memoir, part-biography, all character study.
Review: When We Were Ghouls by Amy E. Wallen
The slow, marked, deliberate pace of this memoir is a gift.
