Month: July 2025

“What’s before me but trails of stories, one story leading to another . . .”

A review of “Becoming Story: A Journey among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors” in 100 words by Catherine Stover

A reader will learn more about the facts of Greg Sarris’s life by reading his Wikipedia page than by reading his memoir. This book tells us little, for example, about his … Read More

“Holding my breath, I pressed the blade to my left wrist and pulled it across.”

A review of “An Indian Among Los Indígenas” in 100 words by Catherine Stover

How much should a memoirist reveal? This is the most challenging question for the writers I work with. Too much information heightens vulnerability. Too little results in generic and unconvincing prose. This author shares her confusion, … Read More

“In the middle of my life – just past the middle – walking along the street with our little dog Jack on a leash . . . I came to the edge and did not know the way.”

A review of “New and Selected Poems” in 100 words by Catherine Stover

About 700 years ago, Dante wrote a poem that begins this way, “Midway upon the journey of our life / I found myself within a forest dark / For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” Marie Howe … Read More