Americans’ affinity for nostalgia becomes a personal exploration of family, race and memories in this thoughtful essay collection.
REVIEW: Dreadful Sorry: Essays on an American Nostalgia by Jennifer Niesslein
Category: Issues
REVIEW: Killer Looks: The Forgotten History of Plastic Surgery in Prisons by Zara Stone
The little-known history of plastic surgery for prisoners reflects a societal bias about attractiveness and a surprising aid to convict rehabilitation.
REVIEW: Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family by Madhushree Ghosh
The memoir deftly braids memories of food and a Bengali upbringing with reflections of how cuisine has informed the writer’s sense of identity…
REVIEW: Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos combines memoir with compassionate and candid advice on craft in Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative.
REVIEW: Big Reader: Essays by Susan Olding
A life-long love of books and her personal connections to specific works are explored by a master essayist.
REVIEW: An Encyclopedia of Bending Time by Kristin Keane
Writer Kristin Keane daringly bends the boundaries of form and craft in a book exploring the loss of her mother.
INTERVIEW: Claudia Putnam, Winner of Split/Lip’s Creative Nonfiction Chapbook Contest
Double Negative by Claudia Putnam is the winner of Split/Lip’s 2021 Nonfiction/Hybrid Chapbook Contest.
INTERVIEW: Steph Auteri and Ronna Russell: How To Write About Sexual Intimacy Without Making Your Reader Cringe….
I still had questions about how to approach sex in memoir, so I asked them to have a conversation about it with me.
On Liberation: A Conversation with Rachel Krantz, Author of Open: An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy
From the first pages, Rachel Krantz’s Open, An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation, and Non-Monogamy grabs the reader by the throat.
CRAFT: Of Fragments and Segments by Heidi Czerwiec
Essays that use a lot of white space are often described as fragmented. But Robert Root uses the term “segmented essay”….
