In this book of creative nonfiction set in Michigan, Jan Shoemaker shares her quest and her vision. The lovely writing is also poiinted in its questioning. Pieces treat Nature, relationships, teaching, age, love. Most of these essays have been previously published in fine literary magazines.
In this book of creative nonfiction set in Michigan, Jan Shoemaker shares her quest and her vision. The lovely writing is also poiinted in its ques...
Larry Smith's strikingly lucid and complete memoir has a deep and strong focus upon bringing forward the experience of Midwest Ohioan milltown working-class life. The range and volume of Smith's work, from poetry to fiction to memoir--and including his tremendous contributions through his Bottom Dog Press--is simply stunning. His writing moves with great energy, directness, honesty, clarity, and empathy--which, for Smith, "opens creativity." This empathy touches upon family, townspeople and others, but also upon nature, in the sense of experiencing the oneness of self and place....
Larry Smith's strikingly lucid and complete memoir has a deep and strong focus upon bringing forward the experience of Midwest Ohioan milltown work...
In The Thick of Thin, Larry Smith writes of a life full of personal challenges, a life full of consistent engagement with the larger world, and a life full of commitment to making it a better place--as a husband, father, writer, editor. Smith has worn a lot of hats, and he's worn them well. His story here has the emotional resonance of all of his writing. Much of his life's work has been focused on making the point that working-class lives like his in communities like his are important to our culture and history, and he makes that point more strongly than ever in telling of his own in this...
In The Thick of Thin, Larry Smith writes of a life full of personal challenges, a life full of consistent engagement with the larger world, and a life...
In the Harmony Memoir Series, Lori Jakiela's fourth book. A Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: On Work and the Writing Life "I could throw a rock in just about any direction and hit a good writer. The hard part is finding the special ones, the writers who make us laugh, then cry and who make us feel like they're in our heads. Lori Jakiela is one of the special ones, and with Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker, she reminds us why, essay by essay, sentence by sentence. She writes from the heart, she's fearless and funny, and her love for her family and her craft leap off...
In the Harmony Memoir Series, Lori Jakiela's fourth book. A Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: On Work and the Writing Life "I could th...
