The posthumous paperback from William Gay, “Stories from the Attic,” is a masterful collection of narratives, memoirs, and musings.
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A Wild Whatever in “Women We Buried, Women We Burned”
Rachel Louise Snyder’s memoir, “Women We Buried, Women We Burned,” is about grief and its reverberations, but also about re-making.
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Native Woman Looks Back to Move Forward
Leah Myers’ has structured her memoir as a totem pole, carving into history the stories of the three generations before her.
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History Is Both Personal and Current in “Liberty Street”
An interview with Jason K. Friedman on “Liberty Street.”
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Appreciating the Foodways and Resilience of Appalachia in “Hungry Roots”
In Hungry Roots: How Food Communicates Appalachia’s Search for Resilience, Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Wendy Atkins-Sayre examine the many ways that food sends messages about the complicated nature of regional resilience. Their work fills an important gap in recent scholarship about the region because the authors incorporate fieldwork methodology to offer new insights in both…
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Past and Present Are Interconnected in “The Eighth Moon”
Jennifer Kabat’s memoir, “The Eighth Moon,” seeks to make sense of family, politics, and land today through the lens of the past.
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“No Son of Mine” Recounts a Son’s Life When He’s No Longer a Son
Author Jonathan Corcoran recounts how he created his own identity after being disowned by his mother.
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To Wreck and Regenerate: Kirsten Reneau’s “Sensitive Creatures”
In her debut collection of essays, “Sensitive Creatures,” Kirsten Reneau leaves it all on the page: trauma, sexual assault, addiction, suicidal ideation, and amongst the angsty detritus, there remains the undertones of love and hope.
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On Family, Mangos, and AP Style: An Interview with Annabelle Tometich
An interview with Annabelle Tometich on her memoir, “The Mango Tree.”
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“Nola Face”: A Bold and ‘Buggy’ Debut
The New Orleans literary landscape is rich, but Brooke Champagne’s memoir fills a gap in the Big Easy canon.
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