Category: Issues

CRAFT: The Things I Carried Out of Suburbia: Using Classic Structure to Write Memoir by Lori Lackland

Some of us don’t write just to document; we write to survive.

A mixtape is a compilation telling the narrative you want to tell.

Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning in the Ozarks by Benjamin Hale blends true-crime, memoir, and cultural history.

I spent five years on the book before that essay was published… I’d largely given up.

Stalvey’s gorgeous illustrations, playful sense of humor, and clear-eyed criticisms of purity culture …. make this book a worthwhile read.

…it has been a while since a book of essays astounded me on every level…

Winter is a beautifully meandering journey through childhood, local history, and a writer’s life.

I thought I knew a lot about racism. Then I read The Mixed Marriage Project.

..a beautiful combination of elegy and manifesto.

… a book that you can read through, like a more typical memoir, and also cook your way through.

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