Tag: march-april 2025
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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…