Essaying Is Questioning A Jill and Jill Conversation With Jill Christman and Jill Talbot If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays Jill Christman 228 pp. University of Nebraska Press, $21.95 Released September 2022 When I first read Jill Christman’s memoir, Darkroom: A Family Exposure, eight years after its 2011 publication, I wrote her …
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The Fault Lines of Memory Embracing Imperfect Memory in Creative Nonfiction By Brenda Miller “Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don’t think we remember the past, we imagine it. We take a few props with us into the future, and out of those props we make a model, some stage set, and that’s …
The Ways We Remain A Review of the late Ned Stuckey-French’s essays By Bob Cowser, Jr. One By One, The Stars: Essays Ned Stuckey-French 217 pp. University of Georgia Press, $24.95 Released May 2022 The last book review I wrote was one my late friend Ned Stuckey-French assigned to me, in his capacity as reviews …
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A Dash of Dash: The Lyric Art of Punctuation With apologies to Noah Lukeman By Heidi Czerwiec Before evolving to mark syntax for you, silent reader—hearing these lines in your head, perhaps in a version of your own voice, or perhaps one you’ve invented to suit me (how do I sound to you?)—punctuation began as …
To Limit Is to Define: A Review of Mario Aquilina’s New Anthology By Jasmine Bajada The Essay at the Limits: Poetics, Politics, and FormEdited by Mario Aquilina264 pp. London: Bloomsbury Academic, $115.00 If, as Oscar Wilde’s aphorism goes, to define is to limit, then it follows that every definition of this elusive genre, …
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