memoir

Memoir blends coming-of-age tale with agrarian treatise, meditation on illness

July 7, 2014July 8, 2014 admin Appalachian, book review, Casey Clabough, memoir

“Mommy issues” in memoirs—and life—might be cliché, but the courage and strength demonstrated by Clabough’s mother (she left the 1970s male-dominated world of research scientists to raise her child) makes her sympathetic though far from pitiable. Even as an adolescent Clabough, equally gifted and bull-headed, tests and resists her.

Dog-Eared Half-Empty Mason Jar

Why—and other questions that get us out of bed each morning

June 8, 2009March 15, 2012 admin failure, Leslie Smith Townsend, memoir, success

HALF-EMPTY MASON JAR By LESLIE SMITH TOWNSEND Lately, like any good existentialist—say Camus and Kierkegaard—I’ve been wondering what makes me,