LitFriends: The ghost story behind every search for meaning I went quiet—and came back with more than a book. I missed my LItFriends! I ghosted you— not the spooky kind. I disappeared to finish The Alchemy of Sass, a memoir about unraveling the lies, secrets, and assumptions that shaped me. I”m just finishing up the …
New book trailer for ‘Corners; Voices on Change” I’ll be honest here. We had a book trailer created for Corners when it first came out. We never released it because it felt like the wrong tone. The music sounded like an alternate theme to the Mission Impossible movie series. Corners; Voices on Change is about the …
Elan Barnehama and Amy Lou Jenkins in a Conversation about Long-Term Friendships ALJ. When I read your wonderful essay “Showing Up,’ now published in FRIENDS, I was struck by feelings of estrangement and, on the other hand, the comfort of friends. These two emotions seemed to be bantering throughout the essays. It felt familiar and …
Book review ‘The Genius of Birds’ by Ackerman The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman Penguin Press, 2016, 266 pages. Prepare to be annoying. Have you ever experienced a friend or family member who kept looking up over a book with did-you-know facts? I was that person when I read the first chapter of Michael …
Friends: Voices on the Gift of Companionship twenty-four true stories of friendship “An uplifing celebration of essays about the value of friendship” Midwest Book Review Give FRIENDS to say “I cherish you.” BUY TODAY ON AMAZON SHOP YOUR LOCAL INDIE BOOKSTORE Praise for ‘Friends: Voices on the Gift of Companionship’ International Review of Books “A …
Jack Walker Press seeks personal essays of up to 4000 words on the theme of friendship for a new anthology. Stories must be true. We seek dimensional characterizations of the people you write about. First-person essays preferred. Reprints considered if you own rights to the story. Essays should have a clear beginning, middle, and end …
I took V.S. Naipaul to the lake with me. I sat in a lawn chair with my feet in the water. The August day was warm, but I had a cool bottle of water and some cherries, cold and hard from the cooler. I wanted to relax, but my head was spinning. Naipaul writes with …
Corners: Voices On Change Corners: Voices on Change” is a collection of stories about adaptation, about passing through a critical juncture, and gaining a fresh perspective. The book is comprised of 25 stories by writers who are confronted with a major turning point in life. They face physical difficulties, marital strife, failing relationships and deal …
We are thinking about titling our new anthology of literary nonfiction, which collects essays with the theme of transformation and inclusion. Some of the changes are big–death; some are impactful in less obvious ways–a shift in how we see the racial divides expressed in our family. This is a literary collection, and we need to …
