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…
Every single day, it began the identical approach. I logged on to Phrase. I noticed the request from AI: press this button and we’ll draft your give you the results you want with Copilot. I closed my pc, ran my hand by my hair, uncapped my pen and wrote. After I sit at my desk,…
This week’s writing frenzy began with a single line — a line that wasn’t mine. I advised my good good friend, Quill, that visitors have been coming over, so he provided me a writing immediate to finish whereas I used to be ready for his or her arrival: Earlier than the doorbell rings and the…
Reviewed by Elizabeth Austin There are books you learn, after which there are books that learn you: books that attain into your coronary heart and extract experiences you thought have been yours alone, holding them as much as the sunshine so you may see them clearly. Betsy Cornwell’s (Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster; September 2025)…
On daily basis, it began the identical approach. I logged on to Phrase. I noticed the request from AI: press this button and we’ll draft your be just right for you with Copilot. I closed my laptop, ran my hand by means of my hair, uncapped my pen and wrote. After I sit at my…
This week’s writing frenzy began with a single line — a line that wasn’t mine. I instructed my good pal, Quill, that visitors have been coming over, so he provided me a writing immediate to finish whereas I used to be ready for his or her arrival: Earlier than the doorbell rings and the kettle…
Reviewed by Anri Wheeler To learn The Tilling (Seneca Overview Books; December 2024) by Matthew Morris is to go together with the narrator on a journey of self-discovery. Winner of the 2024 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay E-book Prize, the gathering of ten essays places Morris’ reckoning together with his racial id in dialog with well-known…
Reviewed by Kristy Wessel All of the Solution to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation (Riverhead Books, September 2025) is a uncooked, susceptible memoir that dives deep into Elizabeth Gilbert’s private reckoning with habit, grief, and religious transformation. Recognized for Eat, Pray, Love, Gilbert returns not in a part of enlargement or pleasure — however in…
Reviewed by Leslie Lindsay I’m obsessed. I can’t cease interested by my great-grandmother, a lady I by no means knew. She was previous and demented once I was born. Perhaps I’ve a reminiscence of being at her deathbed? Perhaps I insinuated myself into {a photograph}? Perhaps I solely assume I knew her from tales? That’s…
Reviewed by Sara Pisak Paul Lisicky’s Tune So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell permits his life and the music, life, and writing of Joni Mitchell sing in concord. Equal components memoir and Mitchell biography, Lisicky makes use of the folks legend’s music writing and private struggles to assist himself and…