Review: The Selfishness of Others: An Essay on the Fear of Narcissism (reviewed by Art Edwards)
The word “narcissist” gets bandied about to explain personality traits from the benign to the sociopathic.
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Tag Archives: Nonfiction
Essay: Life Lists by Elizabeth Felicetti
Many birders keep track of the birds we’ve seen on a “Life List,” with species, date and location.
Review: Circadian by Chelsey Clammer (reviewed by Amelia White)
Circadian By Chelsey Clammer 176 PP Red Hen Press, 2017 $14.95 ISBN-13: 978-1597096034 Circadian by Chelsey Clammer is a book that pushes boundaries – of genre, of subject and of […]
Nonfiction: Things I Wish I’d Bought by Emma Sloley
Each excavation into a lost object revealed a hidden truth—a genuine regret. But it also threw into relief how lucky I have been, to have accumulated these regrets, and survived them.
Nonfiction: Systole, Diastole by Darlene Young
I see that my own fears, like a misdirecting valve in the heart, can interfere with tenderness.
Nonfiction: Round Down by Alle C. Hall
I wasn’t a cheater. A cheater was something more solid. I accepted the preferred reality as truth. Then, I forgot about it. I mean, genuinely forgot.
Nonfiction: Everything You Left Behind by Marlene Olin
Like Kafka’s cockroaches, the Styrofoam head lives forever. Only we disintegrate to dust.
Nonfiction: In the Way Back, 1985-1995 by Beth Gilstrap
I wonder about the limp in my head, how long it’s been visible.
Grand Vision: An Interview with Diane Ackerman, by Ashlie Kauffman
So much of our experience falls between the seams of language, simply because language is human-made, but our emotions aren’t.
Nonfiction: La Modification by Scott Dominic Carpenter
Paris changes, poet Charles Baudelaire wrote, faster than the human heart, and as far as my neighborhood is concerned, he was right. We’d hardly settled into our new digs before people starting tearing things up.
