The French Ingredient is a testimony for the magic that ensues when you’re willing to embrace the unknown.
REVIEW: The French Ingredient: Making a Life in Paris, One Lesson at a Time by Jane Bertch
Category: Issues
REVIEW: First Love: Essays on Friendship by Lilly Dancyger
[This collection] begins with a title essay so moving, complex, and powerful that I had to put the book down just to let the work settle…
WRITING LIFE: Deadlines > Doors: Writing Can Happen Anywhere by Annabelle Tometich
Learning to write as a journalist felt like being tossed into a raging cauldron.
CRAFT: Say “Yes, And”: How the Rules of Improvisation Can Make You a Better Writer by Mandy Pennington
Improv, or the performance art of unplanned invention, can be a magical art form when done well.
REVIEW: The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting by Lee Gutkind.
I was struck then and am struck now, having read Gutkind’s book, by the notion that confessional writing is subversive.
INTERVIEW: Penny Guisinger, Author of Shift: A Memoir of Identity and Other Illusions
Shift examines sexual and romantic fluidity while wrestling with the ways past and present mingle….
INTERVIEW: Suzanne Scanlon, Author of Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen
The act of writing helps, being a writer helps…. But that doesn’t mean it ended my grief.
INTERVIEW: Steve Almond, Author of Truth is the Arrow, Mercy is the Bow: A DIY Manual for the Construction of Stories
I want the reader to feel like they are in conversation with, and spending time with, someone as neurotic as they are.
INTERVIEW: Jessica J. Lee, Author of Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
The main thing is to think carefully about the power of language.
INTERVIEW: Estelle Erasmus, Author of Writing That Gets Noticed
Estelle Erasmus takes readers through the process, from writing to querying to contracts.
