As Creative Advisor to Longridge Review, I'm lucky to play a small role in the construction of a new creative nonfiction market. With Issue 5, LR places diverse childhood tales alongside arresting images. The result is an issue that speaks as one voice. In the words of Founding Editor Elizabeth Damewood Gaucher: This issue is really heavy. There is recounting…
I just finished Risa Nye's memoir, There Was a Fire Here (She Writes Press, 2016). The Oakland hills fire of 1991 killed 25 people, burned 1500 acres, and destroyed over 3000 homes. One of those homes belonged to Risa, her husband, and her three children. Risa and I met at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop many years…
Hippo continues to blow my nonfiction-loving mind. This time, two of my favorites, who don't know each other, are featured in the same issue: Emily Brisse's "I Am Still Here" speaks to me as a parent and teacher; and Anjoli Roy's "Good Intentions, Bad Idea" speaks to me as a woman and skeptic. I know…
S. stood silent on a Brooklyn playground while a boy, 7 or 8, said, "Say something!" He said it loud. To my protective-mother ears, he also said it in an insistent, incredulous tone—just at, but not over, the edge of mocking. S. didn't say something. I think he was stilled by the sensory cacophony of the playground…
Asymptote is the best. The journal publishes literature from around the world (96 countries and counting), in original language and translation, and offers us a way not only to read but also to view and listen. In terms of literacy and literature, it's thoroughly and admirably 21st century. Now Asymptote has added an education feature. High-school and higher-ed…
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