Tag: brian watson
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Reviewed by Brian Watson Though I used to be disillusioned to be taught that I am not America’s beloved fruit, Priyanka Kumar’s hybrid memoir, The Gentle Between Apple Timber: Rediscovering the Wild By way of a Beloved American Fruit (Island Press; Sept. 2025), half botany and zoology, half ecology and local weather, and half loving portrait of the…
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Reviewed by Brian Watson No Offense: A Memoir in Essays, by Jackie Domenus (ELJ Editions; February 2025) is the kind of memoir I believed had gone out of fashion — and had been informed as a lot by a literary agent who shall stay anonymous. No Offense is a coming-out memoir that particulars the numerous twists…
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Reviewed by Brian Watson Melissa Febos’ The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a 12 months With out Intercourse appears to demand two totally different critiques. One for readers of memoirs and one for writers of memoirs. For the readers, let me start right here. I fell in love on the first sentence: “It’s raining.”…
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Reviewed by Brian Watson Anthologies are an inherently dangerous enterprise. In What My Father and I Don’t Discuss About: 16 Writers Break the Silence (Simon & Schuster; Could 2025), editor Michele Filgate builds on the success of her earlier venture, What My Mom and I Don’t Discuss About, and recruits fifteen different writers to affix…
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Reviewed by Brian Watson Deep Home: The Gayest Love Story Ever Instructed (Little Brown and Firm: June 2025) is the second memoir from Jeremy Atherton Lin. His first, Homosexual Bar: Why We Went Out, got here out a scant three years in the past; each memoirs talk about features of his relationship with the person Mr.…