John Patrick Higgins’ Spinal Fantasy
Humor writer John Patrick Higgins talks about the fading art of painful self-deprecation and other sore subjects in his new “Misery Memoir”, Spine.
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Louise Erdrich’s ‘The Sentence’ Is a Ghost Story and Epitaph for the Covid Shutdown
Louise Erdrich’s The Sentence becomes a way to acknowledge the surrealism that has always pulsated just beneath the surface of American life.
When Harper Lee Came up Short: ‘Furious Hours’
Casey Cep traces Harper Lee's winding road to defeat in Furious Hours.
Irony Triumphs in Theodor Kallifatides’s ‘Another Life’
In writing about the inability to write, Theodor Kallifatides has produced a book, Another Life, which aches with its own quiet beauties and inspires with its resilient creativity.
John McPhee’s ‘Draft No. 4’ Provides Easygoing Wisdom for Readers and Writers
A meditation about the mechanics of writing is a refreshing break from the countless blogs, books, and programs designed to help people who want to write become writers.
‘The Accidental Life’ Is Both a Time Capsule and a Guide
Like a good editor, Terry McDonell may be invisible, but the insights into writing and editing make up for the author's elusiveness, here.