1.) The first time a person on one side of the world speaks to a person on the other, a transatlantic telephone cable is laid some twelve thousand feet deep along the ocean floor. One wonders what conversation would be worthy of this labor. …
Book Reviews
Kristen Paulson-Nguyen Reviews Dani Shapiro’s book, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and LoveDani ShapiroKnopf, $24.95272 pages In her fifth memoir, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, Dani Shapiro is prompted by her husband’s interest in genealogy and takes a DNA test. The results delivered the shock of her life. …
HAIKU4U is the latest artistic vision from Massachusetts-based writer Gilmore Tamny. I had the privilege of interviewing Tamny herself about the process of writing HAIKU4U, a collection of over 200 haikus from Ohio Edit. We spoke via email about nature, method, and vulgarity. This interview is…
Book Reviews
Delia Rainey writes a hybrid personal essay and book review on Sarah Cannon’s The Shame of Losing
The Shame of LosingSarah Cannon160 pagesRed Hen Press, $16.95 I sit next to my mom in a hospital conference room. There are gray walls and a long gray table, where we are all sitting, eating catered deli sandwiches. Each seat is occupied by an…
Writer Kat Read discusses drinking and the essay form in her review of Kristi Coulter’s collection Nothing Good Can Come from This. I didn’t read Kristi Coulter’s essay “Enjoli” when it was first published in the summer of 2016. I didn’t read it that fall, when…
Nancy Ave. After my parents got married they purchased a mobile home on a gravel road called Nancy Ave in southern Maine, where I met Zack, who showed me what circumcision was. My parents had always dreamed of becoming landlords, and when they’d finally…
The Houses The living room is made of sticks. Moss as the carpet, shreds of bark as the roof. “Where will they sleep?” my sister asks, crouched beside me at the foot of a maple tree. I run my hands through the dirt in…