When Port Townsend author Judith Kitchen inherited boxes of family photographs and scrapbooks, they sparked curiosity and speculation. Piecing together her memories with the snapshots, Kitchen’s unusual memoir, Half in Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate, explores the gray areas between the present and the past, family and self, certainty and uncertainty.
Trying to introduce Cheryl Strayed reminds us of what she wrote in her Pushcart Prize-winning essay Munro Country, about meeting Alice Munro for the first time and fumbling over what to say to the fiction icon who she’s long admired. She finally concludes there’s “both too much and nothing to say.” You really have to read …
Portland author Cheryl Strayed won a Pushcart Prize last month for her stunning essay, “Munro Country,” about Alice Munro. (If you're an Alice Munro fan, go here right now to read the essay and order xenical prepare to have your day wrecked for anything but curling up somewhere with a Munro collection). The Pushcart Prizes …
