… a hearty reference guide, a study in craft, a pep talk, an instructional manual and good for all writers of all levels.
REVIEW: The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante
Category: Issues
REVIEW: All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert
Gilbert’s honesty about sex and love addiction is rare.
REVIEW: The Tilling by Matthew Morris
The fragmentation Morris feels when it comes to his racial identity comes through in the many rhythmic tangents on which he takes his readers….
REVIEW: Apartness: A Memoir in Essays and Poems by Judy Kronenfeld
… a cultural, intellectual, historical and, at times, emotional ride through the author’s life.
REVIEW: How the Hell Did I Not Know That? by Lucie Frost
[How the Hell Did I Not Know This] has come along to remind me that memoirs can also teach you trivia in ways that will keep you laughing.
REVIEW: Hotshot: A Life on Fire by River Selby
Wildland firefighting in Hotshot is a brutal endeavour, one that often goes unseen and underappreciated.
WRITING LIFE: Balancing Passions as an Author and College Student By McKenna Graf
How could a 21-year-old publish two books? Surely that’s not enough time to know what you’re doing.
WRITING LIFE: Guerrilla Writing by Gary Smothers
My sworn enemy, the laptop battery, reminded me I had ninety minutes to write this.
INTERVIEW: Tania Richard, Author of Black Girl from a White Suburb: Finding My Light, Using My Voice
While her life as an actress is fascinating, her point of view about what it’s like to be the only black person in the room as a child is a voice that is necessary.
INTERVIEW: Peter Mendelsund, Author of Exhibitionist
Exhibitionist is at once a memoir — a journal — and an art book.
