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Interviewed by Amy Fish I picked up Chilly Kitchen: A 12 months of Culinary Travels (Bloomsbury; Jan. 2025) as a result of I like when a e book has recipes. It could be nostalgia for the important thing lime pie in Nora Ephron’s Heartburn, or the champurrado sizzling chocolate in Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel.…
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Interviewed by Michèle Dawson Haber It was a pleasure and an inspiration to speak with debut writer Shannon Luders-Manuel about her memoir, The One Who Loves You: A Memoir of Rising Up Biracial in a Black and White World (Lawrence Hill Books, February 2025). The enjoyment got here from studying how she grew from being…
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Interviewed by Hillary Moses Mohaupt Suzanne Cope’s guide, Girls at Conflict: The Italian Assassins, Spies, and Couriers Who Fought the Nazis (Dutton; April 2025), offers readers a dramatic account of ladies in resistance throughout the Nazi occupation of Italy throughout World Conflict II. Whereas the title means that their efforts had been energetic and and…
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Interviewed by Lara Lillibridge For six years, Amy Fish toiled away on her first work of researched nonfiction — a large enterprise bringing collectively interviews, analysis, and a particular relationship with a genealogist. The venture was, for lack of a extra excellent time period, beshert for Amy, and he or she knew it. Learn on…
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Interview By Hillary Moses Mohaupt Joanna Rubin Dranger’s graphic memoir Keep in mind Us to Life combines private reflection, archival analysis, images and different ephemera, oral historical past, and different types of analysis and storytelling, and the result’s a sobering, gorgeous chronicle of her Jewish household previous and current. She units out not solely to file…
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Interviewed by Leslie Lindsay Yesterday, I walked to yoga, one thing like two-and-a-half miles. On my means, I closed my eyes, let the solar filter by my milk pores and skin lids. After I opened them, it was apparent I used to be passing by numerous segments of life, like a threshold. I took inventory:…
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Reviewed by Vicki Mayk Among the finest nonfiction writing reveals the common whereas telling a private story. In Nicole Graev Lipson’s exceptional debut assortment, Moms and Different Fictional Characters: A Memoir In Essays (Chronicle Prism, 2025), the author brilliantly mines tales from her personal life to disclose the reality, ache, and wonder that mark the experiences…
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Reviewed by Amanda Maria Gipson Like most college students at Penn State within the 2010s, I carried an overstuffed Vera Bradley. I used to cram that pirouette-patterned messenger bag so utterly that I might solely transfer from place to put with it perched precariously on my lap, the flap stuffed between my physique and my…