From the Other Side of the Woods
Shaken by her sudden and unsettling departure from the rural Alabama farmland where she grew up, Alice Young stumbles off a bus to find herself in a place she’d never…
Shaken by her sudden and unsettling departure from the rural Alabama farmland where she grew up, Alice Young stumbles off a bus to find herself in a place she’d never…
…and remorse. Ensnarement and escape. Everywhere in these poems, familial patterns assert themselves and make their influence known, evoking traumas both personal and generational. Photo: Christen Noel Kauffman Many of…
…protagonists who must navigate unusual social dynamics that place their choices under scrutiny — a widow who faces neighborhood criticism after the sudden death of her teenage son and a…
…also ghostwritten numerous bestsellers. Calhoun argues that to succeed at ghostwriting, “you must have boundless curiosity about the subject’s internal world, the way you would if they were your crush.”…
…her mother to battle out their complicated dynamic in an emotional foreground strewn with landmines. Even when the two women aren’t speaking, her mother’s legacy of trauma and her long-term…
…preoccupations of place and character lie within a distinctly Southern past, populated largely with bygone men and women whose daily lives touch on rural images and historical events that are…