Nonfiction: Already Yesterday by Richard Prins
“White expats like to say there are three types of us in Africa: missionaries, mercenaries, and misfits. I was, obviously, the misfit.”
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Tag Archives: Nonfiction
Nonfiction: To Run and Give Chase by Kenneth Lee
The insults piled on top of each other like a chain of cars crashing at high speed.
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.
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.
