The sport of fly fishing becomes the mechanism for processing grief following the loss of author Cheryl Krauter’s husband.
REVIEW: Odyssey of Ashes: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Letting Go by Cheryl Krauter
Category: Issues
REVIEW: Work Hard, Not Smart: How to Make A Messy Literary Life by Alexis Paige
Combining memoir and explorations of craft, the book is for those who value writing at its most chaotic and honest.
REVIEW: Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Victoria Chang
Letters, found art and photographs are used to explore loss, preserve memories and explore identity.
INTERVIEW: Galit Atlas, Author of Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma
Atlas draws on the emotional power of her patients’ stories and her own experiences to illuminate how inherited family trauma affects our lives.
INTERVIEW: Suzanne Roberts, Author of Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties
I wanted this book to be a hybrid book–a book that defies classification, because I don’t think our grief can be easily classified.
WRITING LIFE: How Writing in Community Rocked My Writing by Laura Sturza
In 2015, I’d reached a turning point in my writing life and realized a group might help me start my first book.
These Should Be the Real Marriage Vows by Tatyana M. Sussex
I do solemnly swear, that I will give you your afternoon nap.
Machines Against the Rage by Mark O. Hodgson
We should have been more suspicious once we discovered that the door lock on the little Cessna 152 was frozen.
Floating by Veena K. Siddharth
It is 1986 and I have lived in rural Nepal for a year, without electricity, running water, or a phone.
Wonky Breasts by Katharine M. Emlen
I don’t know why I put on lipstick. He can’t see my smile through the mask I wear.
