By Kim Pittaway It was a slushy Saturday in January, and I had a number of solitary hours tacked onto the top of a busy convention week to spend wandering in New York earlier than heading house to Canada. The Met beckoned. I had no explicit paintings to tick off a listing of must-sees, and…
Interviewed by Leslie Lindsay After I was an adolescent, everybody had an opinion about what I ought to do with my life. ‘Pediatrician. Mom. Architect. Journalist,’ they sang. Extra particularly, “A broadcast journalist!” I went to nursing college. After I was simply out of nursing college, residing within the Midwest, I took a job at a behavioral…
When a Poet Writes a Memoir Then a Novel and Returns to the Memoir March 2, 2026 § By Lisa Rizzo When your father begins to fade into dementia, you end up writing a memoir about your distant relationship and the way sickness is taking away any likelihood of reconciliation. Surprisingly, your grief leads you…
Reviewed by Elizabeth Austin Arianna Rebolini’s Higher: A Memoir of Wanting To Die (Harper; April 2025) is a unprecedented hybrid, weaving collectively confessional narrative, exhaustive analysis, and cultural evaluation. Rebolini examines the writings and deaths of well-known suicides, critiques the psychological healthcare system, explores familial patterns of psychological sickness, and asks the elemental query that haunts…
By Liz deBeer Overhead, a pelican circles, exhibiting its enormous wing span, huge beak, guttural grunt, and prehistoric vibe. It glides above the cove, looking for flashes of motion earlier than diving straight down. I maintain my breath, silently cheering for the fowl. However it’s a miss. The pelican tries once more. And once more.…
Reviewed by Emily Webber Once you choose up Molly Gaudry’s Match Into Me, A Novel: A Memoir (and also you most positively ought to), you’ll have sure expectations moving into identical to I did. Put together for them to be smashed in the easiest way doable. I anticipated it to be like Erika Stern’s genre-blending e book, Frontier,…
Publishing a e-book will also be a superb strategy to set up thought management in your subject, develop what you are promoting, and create new alternatives for talking, getting media protection, attracting shoppers, and a lot extra. However the publishing trade could be overwhelming, making it troublesome for authors to know which path to take.…
Printable Man on the Moon actions are in a Beacon Library app within the cloud. Click on right here and a brand new display will open the Beacon Library app. Enter your contact data and the Beacon Library app will e mail you a obtain hyperlink. Print the actions on 8.5×11″ paper in full-color or…
By Morag Wehrle It arrived in my inbox like a present: the proper call-out. I learn it with rising pleasure. A prestigious literary journal was producing a particular challenge on a subject pricey to my coronary heart. The rules: open-ended. The judges: writers I admired. And as if it had been ready for simply this…