Bailey Gaylin Moore’s essay collection, Thank You for Staying with Me is full of wonder and sharp observations,
REVIEW: Thank You for Staying With Me: Essays by Bailey Gaylin Moore
Category: Issues
REVIEW: Almanac: A Murmuration by Christine Gelineau
Christine Gelineau is a helluva writer, and Almanac is her masterpiece.
REVIEW: Abbreviate by Sarah Fawn Montgomery
Sarah Fawn Montgomery has a way with words. In her memoir of mini-essays, Abbreviate, she uses them in unique and startling ways.
INTERVIEW: Julie Brill, Author of Hidden in Plain Sight
I was taught only two types of Holocaust stories: a hidden child story like Anne Frank’s and stories of the trains and the camps. My father’s was different.
INTERVIEW: Melissa Fraterrigo, Author of The Perils of Girlhood: A Memoir in Essays
I like the messiness of letting myself figure some things out on the page.
REVIEW: Frontier: A Memoir & a Ghost Story by Erica Stern
Frontier seamlessly blend[s] fiction with memoir with research in the most artful and imaginative manner.
REVIEW: The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood by Kristen Martin
At 14, Martin and her brother were orphans.
REVIEW: The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex by Melissa Febos
The writing in The Dry Season is smart and funny, and it blooms on the page like acres of flowers.
REVIEW: Because I Knew You: How Some Remarkable Sick Kids Healed a Doctor’s Soul by Robert Macauley
This is a book that insists we look closely at what most people would rather not see.
REVIEW: Shattered: A Memoir by Hanif Kureishi
Shattered: A Memoir starts with Hanif Kureishi recounting the accident that changed his life.
