Effective storytellers know there’s more to a day’s work than writing a through-line from Point A—inciting incident—to Point B—resolution.
CRAFT: Striking the Balance: On Showing and Telling by Nicole Breit
Category: Issues
Review: Circadian by Chelsey Clammer
Chelsey Clammer … uses experimental lyric essay forms to explore loss, trauma, and grief…
Review: Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay holds nothing back, and you have to appreciate her stark honesty.
Review: Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
Girl is a tell-it-like-it-is books of the “lies” about her life that Hollis had to face and the ways she overcame them.
Interview: A Q&A With Brian Evenson—author What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Brian Evenson is the author of over a dozen books included Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Bookmarked.
A Personal History of Dogs by Beverly Donofrio
When I was two I’d dress our black puppy in my doll’s yellow dress, tuck him into the doll carriage, and sing “Rock-a-bye Baby”…
Pulling Levers by Emily Pavick
Years ago, before our son was born, my husband and I dreamed of moving away from Illinois, where the world is wind and lakes and cornfields…
Five Wallpapers by Anne Panning
The other day I mentioned the deep regret I feel over not having taken small scraps of wallpaper from the rooms of my parents’ house.
Everything Must Go by Marie Manilla
It’s all tagged. Baggies of nails from Dad’s workshop. Two end tables that belonged to my Italian grandparents. Even the dust mop.
Higher, Farther, Faster by Anne Pinkerton
“Why would someone want to do that?” my mother asks. She is sitting at my dining room table and has opened my new issue of Outside Magazine …
