An interview with Nick Flynn about his new book, “This Is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire.”
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“One Writer’s Beginnings” Forges Connections Across Time and Place
The new edition of Eudora Welty’s instructive memoir “One Writer’s Beginnings” features an introduction by Natasha Trethewey.
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A Correlation Between Artistry and Solitude
Fenton Johnson’s “At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life” examines artists from Thoreau to Rabindranath Tagore to Nina Simone to study the relationship between solitude and artistry.
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A Tapestry of Connectivity in “I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird”
Susan Cerulean’s recent memoir “I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird” chronicles both her end-of-life care for her octogenarian father and her stewardship of seabirds on an isolated Florida island.
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“Dog Flowers”: Excavation and Tribute
Danielle Geller’s new memoir “Dog Flowers” is a complex story of family, and addiction.
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Julia Nitz on “Belles and Poets”: “Literary Allusion is Cultural Currency”
An interview with Julia Nitz on her new book “Belles and Poets: Intertextuality in the Civil War Diaries of White Southern Women.”
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Environmental Injustice in Rural America
Environmentalist Catherine Coleman Flowers’ recent book “Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret” addresses waste as an issue of racial and environmental justice.
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Evocative Joy in “World of Wonders”
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s collection of essays “World of Wonders” is a study of the curiosities in the natural world and lso a gorgeous memoir.
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Heart and Logic in “Soul Full of Coal Dust”
“Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia” by Chris Hamby is a beautifully crafted deep dive into the horrific realities of black lung disease.
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Charles U. Daly on Collaboration, Coming Home from War, and “Make Peace or Die”
An interview with Charles U. Daly and his son and co-author, Charlie, on his new book “Make Peace or Die.”
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