Darling and Guess provide a potpourri of perspectives concerning what marriage has meant and might mean in the early 21st century. Read More
A collection of straight-ahead poems is a good thing, but equally good and also refreshing is a poetry collection diverse...
Patricia Hampl says, “Autobiographical writing is bedeviled,” and she is right. The struggle to translate lived experience into art is...
At this year’s AWP, I had the pleasure of reading in a four-hour, cross-genre literary marathon called Queertopia at Boston’s...
In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade, who won a Lambda for her memoir Wishbone, considers family and memory with a poetic eye and unabashed tongue. With her carefully chosen words and a studied deliberateness, Wade proves unafraid to delve into her past—to skillfully reconstruct the events of her youth, from the horrifying to the sentimental to the self-conscious and beyond. Read More
Like the Ocean which literally and metaphorically flows through the text, Julie Marie Wade’s Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures is...
