In Dreams of Fields: Memory Traces of Iowa’s Past, Roy R. Behrens, a former Professor and Distinguished Scholar at the University of Northern Iowa, takes readers deep into the Midwest as he delves into the people associated with Iowa’s rich history. Filled with twenty-five personal essays, Behrens’ book features prominent Iowans, as well as those Read More
In Key West Sketches: Writer’s at Mile Zero, veteran American journalist and former editor-in-chief of Cuisine, American Health, and Smithsonian magazines, Carey Winfrey, delights us with a collection of essays written by authors who have lived and worked in Key West, Florida. The town, which has long been a hotspot for American writers, has been Read More
Author of two novels and three short story collections, Peter Orner, shares with us his new book, Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin. Filled with personal essays and short stories, Still No Word from You was named after a line in a letter Orner found written from his grandfather to his grandmother. Read More
A dancer and a writer Renee K Nicholson reflects on the experience of writing her memoir – Fierce and Delicate – Essays on dance and illness. “Anytime you’re writing a memoir, you’re excavating your past and there are things in our past that are always painful. But there was also something wonderfully cathartic about it. Read More
Anita Diamant and Melissa Berton the creators, respectively, of a book and an Oscar winning film dealing with menstrual injustice” – Period, end of sentence. Anita’s collection of essays was inspired by the film and her research. “The real question here is about dignity, One should be able to take care of ones necessary bodily Read More
“Looking for a way of making sense of things that I encounter, or experiences I’ve had;, reading I’ve done, people I’ve met. Trying to think about it for myself; and convey what I think I’ve found to others.” David Hamilton talks about his writing process and the essays in his new book – A Certain Read More
Jonathan Lethem joins Writers Voices for a conversation on writing and his new book of essays – More Alive and Less Lonely. On what got him started writing, ” I was participating in a conversation that enthralled me, as a reader, and I wanted to talk back to it….On the whole (writing) is an art Read More
