Poring over an old atlas, Silverman can trace the places and episodes of her difficult past to map the urgency and central drive of the book: what explains the narrator’s life-long fear and obsession with death, and what does it mean to survive?
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Poring over an old atlas, Silverman can trace the places and episodes of her difficult past to map the urgency and central drive of the book: what explains the narrator’s life-long fear and obsession with death, and what does it mean to survive?
Rachel Rueckert, nonfiction MFA candidate, spoke to travel writer Pam Mandel about her career path and recently released book, The Same River Twice: A Memoir of Dirtbag Backpackers, Bomb Shelters, […]
Dayna Patterson undertakes an urgent quest for spiritual authenticity in her new collection, “If Mother Braids a Waterfall.”
Welcome to the Anthropocene, to the daily awakening to and reckoning with our drastic human impact on the planet.
A fair warning: don’t be fooled by the ease of this read, by the sheer joy of following this narrator into adulthood. The heartbreak catches you off guard with such force that you drop even your loudest, most intrusive questions.
Terry Tempest Williams talks about her new essay collection Erosion: Essays of Undoing, in which she explores her connection to the American West, particularly her home state of Utah, as evolutionary process and how our undoing—of the self, self-centeredness, extractive capitalism, fear, tribalism—can also be our becoming, creating room for change and progress.
If good creative writing sparks the instinct to write, The Shell Game provides ample embers to inspire a wide range of writers.
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