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23.042019September 6, 2019

VIDA Reviews! First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story by Huda Al-Marashi

By Marcelle HeathIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags Book Review, First Comes Marriage, Huda Al-Marashi, Indian marriage, marriage, Mathangi Subramanian, memoir, VIDA Reviews

The year I turned twenty-nine was one of the best years of my life. In the space of six months, I successfully defended my doctoral...

11.032019September 6, 2019

VIDA Review Reviews! Mary Kovaleski Byrnes’ So Long the Sky

By Sarah ClarkIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags age, body, Centralia, consumerism, intergenerational, Kim Jacobs-Beck, Mary Kovaleski Byrnes, migration, poetry, Poland, reviews, working class

Home—Pennsylvania and Poland—ancestry, immigrant aunts, and travel to several European cities form the basis of Mary Kovaleski Byrnes’ book So Long the Sky (Platypus Press)....

25.022019September 6, 2019

VIDA Reviews! Ladies Lazarus by Piper Daniels

By Jenn MonroeIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags Ariel, Arisa White, Aziza Barnes, beauty myth, CD Wright, Creative Nonfiction, David Trinidad, Lady Lazarus, mental illness, Ocean Vuong, Pablo Neruda, Piper J. Daniels, poetry, queer woman, Sylvia Plath

A Poet’s Encounter Ladies Lazarus is a work of creative nonfiction that offers the experience of poetry to me. Language that transports you to a...

22.022019September 6, 2019

VIDA Reviews! I Am Yours, by Reema Zaman

By Lauren ZyberIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags bilingual, Cultural Identity, Dana Venerable, David Sedaris, Gabriel García Márquez, healing, Isabel Allende, memoir, race, Reema Zaman, review, trauma, violence against women

I Am Mine “We tend to think deaths and events are all that require grieving, but selves, choices, habits, and relationships we’ve known, they...

12.022019September 6, 2019

VIDA Reviews! Surge by Etel Adnan

By Lisa SummeIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags aphorisms, Book Review, books reviewed, David Markson, diptych, Etel Adnan, Katharine Coldiron, poetry, prose blocks, reviews, Sarah Manguso, Surge

How does a poet’s work change as her perspectives shift decade after decade? A life containing a publication history as prolific as Etel Adnan’s resonates...

28.012019September 9, 2019

VIDA Reviews! New Poets of Native Nations, edited by Heid E. Erdrich

By Elmira ElvazovaIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags books reviewed, Heid E. Erdrich, Indigenous poetry, Native American Literature, Stacy Pratt

Last month, Vulture, the arts and entertainment site of New York magazine released “A Premature Attempt at the 21st Century Canon.” The subhead explained: “A...

16.012019September 9, 2019

Open the Gates: A Call For Inclusivity in Romance Reviewing

By Lisa SummeIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags Allison Senecal, allocishet, Alyssa Cole, Avon and Kensington, Beverly Jenkins, Blogging, Booklist, Cooperative Children’s Book Center, Courtney Milan, diversity, Diversity Baseline Survey, Entertainment Weekly, genre, Her Perfect Affair, inclusivity, Jasmine Guillory, Jennifer Prokop, Kirkus, Lee & Low Books, Library Journal, marginalized communities, nonprofit, NPR, Priscilla Oliveras, publishing, queerness, Robin Bradford, romance, Romance Writers of America, Romantic Times, social media, Tempest, The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, The Ripped Bodice, The Seattle Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Wedding Date, We Need Diverse Books, writers of color

When it comes to the book publishing industry, there are a lot of barriers to inclusivity and diversity. Editors and publishers sometimes claim that books...

20.122018September 9, 2019

VIDA Reviews! Inside Me an Island, by Lehua M. Taitano

By Lauren ZyberIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags diaspora literature, Laura Da’, Lehua M. Taitano, poetry, postcolonial, review

“Who but a horizon so keenly feels how we are kept at each other’s distance?” asks writer and interdisciplinary artist Lehua M. Taitano in the...

11.122018September 9, 2019

VIDA Reviews! Resistance and Hope, edited by Alice Wong

By Lauren ZyberIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags Alice Wong, Anita Cameron, disability justice, Disability literature, election, hope, identity, Lev Mirov, Lydia X. Z. Brown, M. Subramanian, marginalization, Mari Karisato, Naomi Ortiz, politics, resistance, social justice, Vilissa K. Thompson

After the polls closed for the 2016 presidential election, my husband and I strapped our soon-to-be-one-year-old daughter into her high chair and turned her towards...

05.112018September 9, 2019

VIDA Reviews! Not That Bad, edited by Roxane Gay

By Lisa SummeIn VIDA Review ReviewsTags #metoo, affirmation, anger, collective trauma, Elissa Bassist, existence, Jill Christman, Nicole Rivas, Nora Salem, Not That Bad, rape, Roxane Gay, sexual abuse, sexual assault, shame, survivors, trauma, womanhood, Zoe Medeiros

Content note: this piece discusses the trauma and minimization of sexual misconduct In the introduction of Not That Bad, Roxane Gay begins, “When I was...

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