What Is Your Sauce Policy? On Literary Devices and Craft Choices in Quiet Memoir
A few seconds after our 13-year-old asked for lunch during a road trip this summer, those ubiquitous McDonald’s arches suddenly appeared, turned into index fingers,..
Writing Against: Training, Genre, and Poetic Interference
I am trained as an academic.I am not trained as a poet. And yet the poetry came first. The loose-cannon, one-and-only chance, step-to-the-mic collection of..
Community and Resistance: The Writing Process as an Antidote to Upheaval
“A whole civilization will die tonight.” This upsetting nugget was delivered to me during a bit of early-morning social media scrolling, and it may have..
Craft in Conversation: Following the Scent of the Story with Hyeseung Song
Hyeseung Song demonstrates incredible love through truth-telling in her debut memoir Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl (Simon & Schuster, 2024). Docile explores Hyeseung’s..
Courtney Ann LaFaive’s second book, Follow the Signs: Searching for Linda Goodman, America’s Forgotten Astrology Queen, came out this spring through the University of Iowa..
Craft, Consciousness, and Ethical Form in Girlhood In Girlhood, Melissa Febos does not merely recount the experience of growing up female; she constructs an ethical..
