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Suffering & Surprise: On Paul Crenshaw’s ‘This One Will Hurt You’

A collection of essays with contemporary relevance, full of wonderment, heartbreak, personal history, & normalized violence.

Oct 15, 2019

Suffering & Surprise: On Paul Crenshaw’s ‘This One Will Hurt You’

Oct 15, 2019

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Psychosis & Obsession: On Forrest Roth’s ‘Gary Oldman Is a Building You Must Walk Through’

An anonymous narrator hinges all his hope for future happiness on a script for a commercial that will feature actor Gary Oldman.

Jul 31, 2019

Psychosis & Obsession: On Forrest Roth’s ‘Gary Oldman Is a Building You Must Walk Through’

Jul 31, 2019

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Break & Survive: On Meghan McClure’s ‘Portrait of a Body in Wreckages’

McClure’s fragmented essay chapbook explores in lyrical prose the ways in which our bodies break, fail, overcome, and survive.

Oct 8, 2018

Break & Survive: On Meghan McClure’s ‘Portrait of a Body in Wreckages’

Oct 8, 2018

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The Paths of the Dead Intertwine: On R. J. Fox's 'Awaiting Identification'

Fox's novel is a fictionalized account of characters based on real-life unidentified bodies.

Aug 19, 2018

The Paths of the Dead Intertwine: On R. J. Fox's 'Awaiting Identification'

Aug 19, 2018

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Recovery, Survival, & Forgiveness: On Aimee Ross' 'Permanent Marker'

Ross' recovery memoir has moments of surprise wit, compassion, and forgiveness, even for those who may not seem to deserve it.

Aug 5, 2018

Recovery, Survival, & Forgiveness: On Aimee Ross' 'Permanent Marker'

Aug 5, 2018

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Coming to Terms with Loss: On Lisa Romeo's 'Starting with Goodbye'

Romeo's grief memoir is a treasure box of tenderness, love, and nostalgia.

Jul 28, 2018

Coming to Terms with Loss: On Lisa Romeo's 'Starting with Goodbye'

Jul 28, 2018

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Mesmerized by the Cosmos: On Rebecca Fish Ewan's 'By the Forces of Gravity'

Fish Ewan's memoir-in-free-verse is a compelling auto-ethnography of a wayward childhood, loss of innocence, & search for love.

Jul 22, 2018

Mesmerized by the Cosmos: On Rebecca Fish Ewan's 'By the Forces of Gravity'

Jul 22, 2018

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Resilience & Adaptability: On Kelly Davio's 'It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability'

Davio's essays handle with honesty and humor the complexities, misgivings, and misunderstandings of debilitating disease.

Jun 30, 2018

Resilience & Adaptability: On Kelly Davio's 'It's Just Nerves: Notes on a Disability'

Jun 30, 2018

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Southern Feminism: On Beth Gilstrap's 'No Man's Wild Laura'

Gilstrap's quintessential feminist Southern stories crackle with unflinching precision and prose narrated in a no-nonsense drawl.

May 14, 2018

Southern Feminism: On Beth Gilstrap's 'No Man's Wild Laura'

May 14, 2018

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Unsettling Surrealism: On Laura Trunkey’s ‘Double Dutch’

Trunkey’s stories delve into the uncanny and bizarre to investigate traditional storytelling with unexpected narrators and a twist.

May 3, 2018

Unsettling Surrealism: On Laura Trunkey’s ‘Double Dutch’

May 3, 2018

Melissa Grunow

Melissa Grunow

Author of REALIZING RIVER CITY: A MEMOIR (2016) and I DON’T BELONG HERE: ESSAYS (2018), book reviewer, word nerd. www.melissagrunow.com #amwriting

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