Essay writer and illustrator Martha Park considers faith, family, climate change, and community in her debut collection. Debut writer Martha Park is stirring a pot of rice in Roanoke, Va., when her father tells her over the phone that he is retiring as pastor of a United Methodist church in Memphis, Tenn. “I couldn’t haveContinue reading “Soul Searching Through the South”
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A Thrilling Peek Into a Taboo World
Molly Roden Winter dazzles with her debut. You may want to look away — but she’ll keep you turning the pages “It’s been almost two years since I first saw Matt, but I can hardly remember the before times, when I wasn’t caught in a constant swirl of secret lust and mother’s guilt.” This book.Continue reading “A Thrilling Peek Into a Taboo World”
Stories We Know By Heart
Helen Ellis pens an irreverent, witty collection of essays about her life — and ours Helen Ellis is a 54-year-old writer with no kids, no colleagues, no car, living in a New York City apartment with a doorman. And yet. She finds a way to reach those of us — especially us Gen X femaleContinue reading “Stories We Know By Heart”
You’ve Got a Friend in Her
Helen Ellis’s latest book of essays is sure to make you smile Helen Ellis is writing for me. A woman in my late 40s/early 50s. Someone who stares in the mirror and wonders: Is my hair grayer than it was yesterday? Did my cheeks always have those ridges at the bottom? No, I do notContinue reading “You’ve Got a Friend in Her”
Put Down Your Phone
Book of personal essays transports readers to a happier time Rick Bailey is having a conversation with his wife. And striving to appreciate Beaujolais. And sightseeing with Italian friends. And washing gravestones alongside a widow. And we readers are grateful that he is. Because in each of Bailey’s 42 tightly-written, sure-to-make-you-smile personal essays, he extractsContinue reading “Put Down Your Phone”