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Under My Bed and Other Essays
“I know women who enjoy being alone in their homes at night. A single mother at my daughter’s preschool, for instance, says she lives for uninterrupted hours of André Watts’s piano playing when her children are elsewhere. Another, a former student of mine, binge-watches Breaking Bad on Netflix […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Alternate-form Memoir, Good Books, Review of the Month, Women's issues
Tags: Alternate-form Memoir, Good Books, Review of the Month, Women's issues
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Author Interviews
Fiction
When We Return
One of the reasons I read is to learn about other people’s experiences and perspectives; I particularly enjoy reading about other cultures and the histories that created them. We can’t be separated from our history. That point is made very clear by Eliana Tobias in her novel When […]
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Cultures, Family relations, Good Books, History, Immigrants, Jewish life, Our times, War and its effects
Tags: Cultures, Family relations, Good Books, History, Immigrants, Jewish life, Our times, War and its effects
Memoir and Autobiography
Feminist Therapist
Is America still a patriarchy? Pretty much, though we’re conditioned to think otherwise. What are truths, what is perception, and how did Jessica Heriot rise above that conditioning when she poured her newly found feminist knowledge into a career? These are some of the issues addressed in Heriot’s […]
Burning Sage: Collected Writings on Unconventional Motherhood, Unconventional Teacherhood, and Unconditional Love
Like most women, Jennifer Rieger confronts life’s unexpected events with apprehension. As a nineteen-year-old college student she becomes pregnant, disrupting her plans for a writing career. She falls in love with her infant son, even more deeply than expected, and she learns to be a wife and mother. […]
Categories: Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Alternate-form Memoir, Good Books, Relationships, Women's issues
Tags: Alternate-form Memoir, Good Books, Relationships, Women's issues
Our Favorite Authors
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An Interview with Susan J. Tweit
Author of Bless the Birds: Living with Love in a Time of Dying Winner of 2021 SCN’s Sarton Memoir Award Susan J. Tweit has been published in a diversity of magazines and newspapers, including Audubon, Popular Mechanics, High Country News, and the Los Angeles Times. Her work has […]
Categories: Author Interviews, Memoir and Autobiography
Tags: Caregiving, Family relations, Good Books, grief, Our Favorite Authors
Tags: Caregiving, Family relations, Good Books, grief, Our Favorite Authors
An Interview with Michele Weldon
Author of Act Like You’re Having a Good Time 2021 Winner of SCN’s Gilda Award Michele Weldon writes frequently for many publications, including the Washington Post and USA Today. Her books include I Closed My Eyes: Revelations of a Battered Woman; Writing to Save Your Life: How to […]
