My pal Andrea made me a mixtape in highschool after I’d kissed my first boyfriend. The mixtape centered across the made-up fairytale of “Princess Kristine and Prince ___,” and between […]
I got here up with the concept final spring, after greater than a decade of educating Tim O’Brien’s The Issues They Carried to twin enrollment highschool seniors. By then, I […]
Reviewed by Vicki Mayk As somebody who writes micro essays, I used to be desirous to overview Beth Ann Fennelly’s assortment of micro memoirs, The Irish Goodbye: Micro-Memoirs (W.W. Norton, February […]
Reviewed by Emily Webber With over 100 books printed, the Object Classes sequence from Bloomsbury Educational goals to uncover the “hidden lives of odd issues.” These slim paperbacks may be learn […]
Reviewed by Sara Pisak On the time of writing (not publishing) this evaluation, it’s formally 206 days till Thursday, August 27, 2026, week zero of the faculty soccer season. If […]
Music will be intently tied to our reminiscences, and this could be a boon once we write about our previous experiences. I just lately got here throughout a brand new […]
Interviewed by Morgan Baker I didn’t count on Map of a Coronary heart: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Discovering the Approach House (Vine Leaves Press; February 2026) to be a […]
Interviewed By Nan J. Bauer There’s an essay in Jill Christman’s If This Had been Fiction: A Love Story in Essays the place she describes the time her daughter, 4 years […]
Interviewed by J. Michael Lennon Halfway by way of Dizzy: A Memoir (West Virginia College Press; 2025), an alternately excruciating and lyrical memoir of being misplaced for 18 years within the […]
Interviewed by Leslie Lindsay After I was an adolescent, everybody had an opinion about what I ought to do with my life. ‘Pediatrician. Mom. Architect. Journalist,’ they sang. Extra particularly, […]