Paul Crenshaw’s ‘This One Will Hurt You’ Will, Indeed
Paul Crenshaw's This One Will Hurt You, a PopMatters' Pick, is powerful essay collection about life, loss, faith, and natural (and man-made) violence in rural America.
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Lee Martin’s ‘The Mutual UFO Network’ Presents Twelve Graceful Measures in a Dark World
There are rare instances, no matter how experienced we might feel, when we encounter a short story collection of consistently strong, beautiful, breathtakingly tragic variations on a theme as captured by Martin here.
Life Makes Us Better Readers: Tess Gallagher’s ‘The Man from Kinvara’
Gallagher's work often suffers unfairly beside famous husband's Raymond Carver. The Man from Kinvara should permanently remedy this.
Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life
Equal parts textbook, memoir, and reflection on the writing process, this is a cogent, realistic, and inspirational advice for professional and novice writers of all sorts.
The Drowning Pool: When Great Writers Are Drunks
Berryman, Carver, Cheever, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Williams; none could tend the flame of their talent with anything but liquor and devastation.