Drawing out the Truth: Creative Nonfiction as Comic
In Syncopated: an Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays (Villard, 2009), editor Brendan Burford seeks to expand the dialogue that works like Maus have begun. Within this large-format collection, Burford has assembled an ambitious collection of comics-as-essay ranging from personal narrative, to biography, to literary journalism and more.
Lost and Found: Adolescent Obsession in Hannah Pittard’s Debut Novel
Comparisons to Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides are unavoidable and complimentary: here, too, is a Greek-style chorus of boys grown to men, as well as their obsession with a female classmate and the reconstruction of a life from supposition.
Some with Bicycles, Some Without: The Women of the Rumpus
Women of color, lesbian women, straight women, youthful women, mature women, and even possibly crazy women are included in this first volume. Some of the women take off their clothes and some commit suicide; others refuse to do either. At times the diversity can seem contrived, but for the most part, this is a solid...
Six Missing Words for Blue: Ellen Meloy on the Nature of Color and Place
In this collection, Ellen Meloy turns her sharp eye on a diverse geography, along the way discussing the history of turquoise mines, solitary women of the outback, truck stop gift shops, her own family's history with slavery, and the sex lives of desert wildflowers.
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