Jill Christman is the author of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (Nebraska, 2022), Darkroom: A Family Exposure, and Borrowed Babies: Apprenticing for Motherhood. She is a professor in the Creative Writing Program at Ball State University, where she serves as editor … Continue reading Excerpt: The Heart Folds Early
Melissa Fraterrigo is the executive director of the Lafayette Writer’s Studio in Lafayette, Indiana, and teaches at Purdue University. She is the author of the novel Glory Days (Nebraska, 2017) and a collection of short fiction, The Longest Pregnancy: Stories. Her latest book is … Continue reading The Memory Keeper: Tips for Writing Memoir
To celebrate Mother’s Day on May 12, we’ve curated a list of memoirs, fiction, anthropology, and history that explores the beautiful yet complicated kaleidoscope of motherhood. If This Were Fiction JILL CHRISTMAN If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill … Continue reading Reading List: Mother’s Day
As you curate your Summer Reading lists, don’t forget to add a book of poetry or two. With our summer reading sale, you can get award-winning poetry books for 50% off! From now until the end of July, Lincoln City Libraries … Continue reading Summer Reading List: Poetry
Books The Zoo at Night Susan Gubernat Praise from Kenyon Review: “Rising out of experience—painful, beautiful, disruptive—The Zoo at Night offers an unflinching look at an imperfect world underlain with a conviction to hope.” Our Lady of the Artichokes Katherine … Continue reading News and Reviews
The following has been excerpted from Educated Tastes: Food, Drink, and Connoisseur Culture (Nebraska, 2011), a collection of essays edited by Jeremy Strong. This particular essay has been excerpted in honor of the picky eater at your Thanksgiving table. From “Feeding Finn” … Continue reading Excerpt: Educated Tastes
The following has been excerpted from White Gold: Stories of Breast Milk Sharing (September 2017) by Susan Falls. Falls is a professor of anthropology at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Preface My son has more than twenty-five siblings—milk siblings, that … Continue reading Excerpt: White Gold
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