Category: Non Fiction Books
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Reviewed by Leslie Lindsay TW: suicide Final night time, I dreamed I spoke to a ghost. She was dwelling in a field in my laundry room. I used to be pulling sheets from the washer to the dryer, and there, within the dreamworld of my life, a fully-formed lady emerged. “Why are you dwelling in…
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By Elizabeth Austin The morning after my SNAP piece ran within the New York Instances, I acquired an e mail from a person who inexplicably entered his private data into my web site’s “Contact” kind. His title is Earl, and he shared the next message with me: I hear you’re a SNAP recipient and at the…
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Reviewed by Marissa Gallerani When Merilyn Simonds and Beth Robinson began taking weekly walks amidst the COVID-19 lockdowns, it was not with the intention of making something. They have been merely seeking to take pleasure in one another’s firm safely throughout quarantine. The ensuing memoir, Strolling with Beth: Conversations with My 100 Yr Outdated Good…
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By Allison Okay Williams Yesterday, I noticed a writing program that seemed superb. A trainer/coach who can be a multiply-published writer, and their also-published editorial colleagues mentor writers for a yr, with targets, deadlines and suggestions geared toward producing a publishable e-book prepared for a conventional deal. I run an identical course myself, 8 weeks…
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Reviewed by Dorothy Rice This third memoir from Jeannie Vanasco mines advanced, puzzling and all-too-common emotional terrain — a member of the family or cherished one who repeatedly resorts to “punitive silence” fairly than categorical uncomfortable emotions. It’s a very merciless and lonely type of punishment. The sufferer, the individual on the receiving finish, is…
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By Mallory Clarke I’m embarrassed to say this, however I beloved lockdown in the course of the pandemic. I used to be shakingly afraid of dying of COVID-19. Every little thing occurring outdoors my handmade me anxious; being caught inside my house lowered my anxiousness. However extra importantly, it was throughout lockdown that I found…
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Reviewed by Emily Webber Michelle Herman’s memoir of private essays, If You Say So (Galileo Press; 2025), affords an insightful reflection on getting older, grief, and discovering sudden neighborhood later in life. The opening essays within the assortment concentrate on how Herman found a love of ballet in her sixties, the way it reworked her…
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By Andrew Miller My spouse burst by means of the entrance door, scorching with pleasure. There had been a fierce dust-up at our native writers group assembly that just about led to fisticuffs. It began when the group president known as for “latest writing information.” The primary to reply was a retired insurance coverage salesperson…
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(This weblog put up is a barely revised excerpt from Change the World One Guide at a Time: Make a Constructive and Significant Distinction with Your Phrases by Nina Amir, which might be launched January 6, 2026, by Books That Save Lives. Preorder a duplicate right here, and obtain a free course!) Authors function change…
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Interviewed by Hillary Moses Mohaupt Jennifer Case is an environmental author, editor and artistic writing on the College of Central Arkansas, and he or she’s additionally a mom. In her e book, We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood (Trinity College Press; 2024), Case explores the various ways in which moms may…