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: Issues
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.
Avoid Windows by Michael Gutierrez
The official text comes a few minutes later…. Go inside now; avoid windows.
Highway Arithmetic by Chuck Rybak
My father is the compass that bleeds. “Turn left here. Another left up ahead.”
The Postpartum Survey by Stephanie M. Wytovich
My husband carries our one-week-old into the waiting room.
