Memoir Deserves Its Moment

Memoir Deserves Its Moment

Publishers Weekly My Soapbox essay on memoirist Annie Ernaux’s Nobel Prize win appeared in the October 17, 2022 print issue of Publishers Weekly. It’s time we give more credence to writers, especially those from marginalized backgrounds, who dare to show...
We Can’t Eat Grass

We Can’t Eat Grass

The Banyan Review When my partner and I bought our first house together in a manicured, suburban neighborhood, we decided to transform the land into a yard with purpose. Our sometimes humorous, other times maddening story of effecting change shows what’s possible when...