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Using my snarky, sanity-saving guide that’s now a PDF, thank you very much. So you’ve lived a life. Maybe it’s been messy, magical, or somewhere in between. And now you’re thinking, “I should write ...

Leslie Gray Streeter wrote “Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like ‘Journey’ in the Title” because it’s the book she needed when she became ...

I’ve attended seven funerals of friends who died by suicide. Most were for friends I knew through church, and all of them gutted me. So when asked if I would review Miriam Toews’s new memoir, I ...

Over a decade after the death of her husband, Lori Carlson-Hijuelos’ latest book took her on an “unexpected pilgrimage” to the heart of their union. The New York City-based author and editor’s latest ...

Writing about trauma risks polishing the pain, forcing neat closures, and smoothing out what resists language altogether. It also risks dipping into the cliché or the sensational. How does a writer ...

The publishing journey of English Professor Maureen Stanton’s new memoir, “The Murmur of Everything Moving,” is a Cinderella story. Stanton wrote the first draft of the memoir – a tale of falling in ...