Recommended by B.K. (Kate) Jackson
Anyone who's experienced a profound loss resulting from cancer will want to read this.
Poet, memoirist, and teacher Nick Flynn (author of, among other memoirs, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City), explores ideas about the creative process and offers exercises that will change the way you think about writing and inspire unexpected connections.
Jane interviews extraordinary writers, asking penetrating and provocative questions. She come away from each with both craft lessons and life lessons. Always a delight to read.
Three-time memoirist Elissa Altman writes about creativity and the search for joy and comfort in difficult times—that comfort sometimes coming in the form of an incredibly satisfying and simple recipe. Or a photo of her golden retriever, Fergus. (I confess to finding comfort above all in books, food, and golden retrievers.) Also, as in her exceptional new book Permission, she looks at the joys, the perils and pitfalls, and the absolute necessity of sharing one's truth.
