Tag: issues
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A few years in the past, in an grownup writing workshop, the trainer requested us to profile a mother or father. On the time, I used to be struggling in my relationship with my father so he got here instantly to thoughts. I started with, “My father is the tallest of two sons born and…
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Reviewed by Dorothy Rice The Boat Not Taken: A North Korean Daughter and Her Mom’s Story (Betty; Might 2025) by Joanna Choi Kalbus is among the first titles from WTAW Press’ (a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) new imprint, Betty, established by director and editor-in-chief Peg Alford Pursell particularly for books by ladies, with the purpose of showcasing…
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Reviewed by Sara Pisak It’s honest to say that after a fall on Boxing Day whereas in Rome, Hanif Kureishi felt his life and the lives of these round him had been shattered. Each typographically and metaphorically, the quilt of his memoir tells the reader as a lot with “hanif kureishi. shattered. a memoir” highlighted…
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Reviewed by Elizabeth Austin Writing about dying youngsters is a near-impossible activity. The topic indicators, instantly, that this won’t be a straightforward learn, and that the terrain forward is steeped in grief and concern and helplessness. And but, in As a result of I Knew You: How Some Outstanding Sick Children Healed a Physician’s Soul (Chehalem…
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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 Carolyn Roy-Bornstein What many people find out about orphans has been formed largely round fiction. From the sketch Little Orphan Annie to the novel sequence The Boxcar Youngsters; from Annie the musical to after college TV specials like Get together of 5, the narrative arc of the American orphan is identical. Mother and father…
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Reviewed by Leslie Lindsay Twenty years in the past, in a Prairie-style group hospital in the course of a Minnesota cornfield, I gave start to my first daughter. Like Erica Stern, I used to be on the sting of a brand new frontier. Like Erica Stern, I had idealized motherhood via tender diaper commercials and…
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Interviewed by Morgan Baker In 2013, my division chair at Emerson Faculty requested if I might be considering working with a grad pupil on her memoir. I mentioned sure, instantly. That pupil was Jennifer Crystal, writer of One Tick Stopped the Clock. A few years later, I sat within the viewers at Porter Sq. Books…
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Reviewed by J. Michael Lennon David Denby took on fairly a job of labor when he determined to depict the lives of 4 well-known Twentieth-Century Individuals: Leonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer in Eminent Jews (Henry Holt and Co.; April 2025). Pretty presenting the event-laden, controversy-crammed lives of this gifted quartet, all…
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Reviewed by Emily Webber In Tom McAllister’s assortment, It All Felt Unimaginable: 42 Years in 42 Essays, he challenges himself to write down an essay for yearly of his life. There’s a hazard this might come throughout as compelled and really feel like a response to a writing train. But, McAllister pulls off one thing…