REVIEW: Giving Up the Ghost: A Daughter’s Memoir by Samantha Rose November 5, 2025 At first, Rose’s grief journey is solitary, but she is buttressed by her younger, can-do sisters…. Read full story →
INTERVIEW: Muriel A Murch, Author of Harvesting History While Farming the Flats October 13, 2025 Harvesting History While Farming the Flats is a gorgeous, thoughtful book inside and out. Read full story →
REVIEW: The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante September 15, 2025 … a hearty reference guide, a study in craft, a pep talk, an instructional manual and good for all writers of all levels. Read full story →
INTERVIEW: Peter Mendelsund, Author of Exhibitionist September 14, 2025 Exhibitionist is at once a memoir — a journal — and an art book. Read full story →
REVIEW: Frontier: A Memoir & a Ghost Story by Erica Stern July 14, 2025 Frontier seamlessly blend[s] fiction with memoir with research in the most artful and imaginative manner. Read full story →
INTERVIEW: Marty Ross-Dolen, Author of Always There, Always Gone: A Daughter’s Search for Truth June 10, 2025 Told with a poet’s precision for language, and a novelist’s eye for storytelling, Marty Ross-Dolen takes a slightly unconventional approach to this memoir. Read full story →
INTERVIEW: Jill Bialosky, Author of The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother May 7, 2025 As a writer and a reader, I’m searching for truth, honesty, ways of making sense of difficult experiences. Read full story →
INTERVIEW: Lidia Yuknavitch, Author of Reading the Waves April 10, 2025 Organized in 15 nonlinear, braided essays, Reading the Waves by Lidia Yukanatich is about holding on and letting go. Mostly letting go. Read full story →
REVIEW: Snapshots: An Album of Essay and Image edited by Dinah Lenney April 10, 2025 Editor Dinah Lenney presents 36 provocative, genre-fluid micro essays by a diverse and powerful cast of writers. Read full story →
INTERVIEW: Deborah Derrickson Kossmann, Author of Lost Found Kept: A Memoir March 10, 2025 It was critical to the narrative to capture what it was like to be a child and experience what I did. Read full story →