Buddha’s first teachings started with the Four Noble Truths. But the first of my four noble lies started with pig’s blood.
Lên Nước by Agnes Tran
Category: Issues
What I Took After She Died in the Memory Care Wing by Irene Fick
On the floor of Aunt Rosalie’s closet: in a plastic trash bag, the new slacks and matching shirts, still with tags…
The Gradual Extinction of Softness by Chantha Nguon with Kim Green
The first time I cooked rice by myself, at five years old, I burned it to a tarry blackness.
INTERVIEW: Brian Broome, Author of Punch Me Up to the Gods, Winner of the 2021 Kirkus Prize
Brian Broome, author of Punch Me Up to The Gods: A Memoir, speaks to Hippocampus Magazine’s Lara Lillibridge.
A Conversation with Laraine Herring, Author of A Constellation of Ghosts
We spoke with Laraine about speculative memoir, ancestral roots, grief, empathy, structure, and putting it all together on paper.
INTERVIEW: Jillian Halket, Author of Blade in the Shadow
Halket’s book explains, from a personal perspective, what having OCD is like—debilitating.
REVIEW: Telephone: essays in two voices by Brenda Miller and Julie Marie Wade
The collection reads like life itself with the simple unpredictable connection of every moment.
REVIEW: All the Leavings by Laurie Easter
In this collection the natural world exists as a place of solace where lessons can be learned from natural cycles.
REVIEW: Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty
Through the ebb and flow of one young man’s year, we are urged to confront ourselves, to linger, learn, and grow.
REVIEW: Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father’s German Village by Mimi Schwartz
The book focuses, not on the horrors of the Holocaust, but on the small stories that have no place in history.
