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…
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…