Glaser excels at world-building, using vivid imagery and evocative sensory description to conjure the environment of the ashram….
REVIEW: This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience by Blair Glaser
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REVIEW: Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire by Anastasiia Fedorova
A hybrid memoir with a sociological framework that interrogates the paradox between private expressions of sexuality and their depictions in larger culture.
REVIEW: The Way Around: A Field Guide to Going Nowhere by Nicholas Triolo
In the opening pages, Nicholas Triolo describes the scene of his collapse at the finish line of the Western States 100.
REVIEW: Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love by Zefyr Lisowski
Culturally, we don’t often associate horror movies with helping us to live through our traumatic experiences.
REVIEW: The Company of Owls: A Memoir by Polly Atkin
In The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin weaves together themes of isolation, chronic pain, and the restorative power of quiet observation.
CRAFT: React or Respond: A Writer’s Choose Your Own Adventure by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
Challenging as it is, we writers can meet the firehose of reactivity with equanimity.
WRITING LIFE: Crazy Like A Superpower by David Fowler
Collecting, or notetaking, was rigorous and compulsive but it forced me to deeply note events as I lived them…
INTERVIEW: Maddie Ballard, author of Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary
Patchwork is Maddie Ballard’s debut memoir, a collection of essays structured around the making of seventeen garments.
INTERVIEW: Cindy Eastman, Editor of Grief Like Yours: A Story Collection of Life After Loss
…talking to Cindy Eastman was like talking to a good friend…
INTERVIEW: Kerry Neville, Author of Momma May Be Mad
One day an irresponsible psychiatrist labeled her “hopeless,” and Neville… walked out of his office determined to prove him wrong.
