Reblog: The grief-stricken families left behind after SLA shootout
via The grief-stricken families left behind after SLA shootout Today (May 17) is the 45th anniversary of the shootout with …
Category Archives: Books
On Visuals in Creative Nonfiction
Originally posted on BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog:
Rachael Hanel By Rachael Hanel One question I often ponder as I read creative nonfiction: Why…
Essay collection review: All the Wild Hungers by Karen Babine
What do you do when life ceases to make sense? When your 65-year-old mom is diagnosed with a childhood cancer, …
The natural cycles of reading
Seasons and days have their own rhythms. You plant in the spring, harvest in the fall, sleep at night and …
When you know the answer, what keeps you reading (or watching)?
I love reading narrative nonfiction, and that’s the genre for my current writing project. Because I’m in the revision stage …
REBLOG: If Wishes Were Horses — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
Life is about figuring out your priorities. What you put at #1 is going to push something else down to …
Polar Vortex forces me to blog!
Sundogs over Madison Lake on Tuesday, Jan. 29. Air temperature was -8 degrees F. Photo by author. The polar vortex has …
The true crime genre for young adult readers
I’m intrigued by what sounds like a dearth of narrative nonfiction books for young adults, specifically true crime. True crime …
The next wave of memoir
Photo Credit: Bosc d’Anjou Flickr via Compfight cc In all the years I’ve taught memoir at The Loft, at times …
Generating ideas for memoir
Photo Credit: MarkGregory007 Flickr via Compfight cc I’m teaching a generative memoir workshop at The Loft Literary Center on Saturday …
