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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 16h

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Anri Wheeler reviews The Tilling by Matthew Morris.
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-the-tilling-by-matthew-morris/

REVIEW: The Tilling by Matthew Morris | Hippocampus Magazine

"The fragmentation Matthew Morris feels when it comes to his racial identity comes through in the many rhythmic tangents on which he takes his readers..." -- Anri Wheeler

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 19h

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Sara Pisak reviews Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell by Paul Lisicky. #BookReview

https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-song-so-wild-and-blue-a-life-with-the-music-of-joni-mitchell-by-paul-lisicky/

REVIEW: Song So Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell by Paul Lisicky | Hippocampus Magazine

"Together Paul Lisicky and Mitchell forge a life engulfed in appreciation for the power of language that aids in his newfound love of prose." -- Sara Pisak in her review.

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 22h

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Leslie Lindsay reviews The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante.
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-the-lab-experiments-in-writing-across-genre-by-alice-laplante/

REVIEW: The Lab: Experiments in Writing Across Genre by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | Hippocampus Magazine

[The Lab by Matthew Clark Davison & Alice LaPlante] is a hearty reference guide, a study in craft, a pep talk, an instructional manual ... for all writers of all levels.

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 1d

Explore the Archives! Since 2011, Hippocampus Magazine has published more than 140 issues full of essays, articles, and more. Like a good rerun, there's lots to enjoy again or enjoy for the first time. Browse all back issues here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/past-issues-archive/

Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 1d

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Hillary Moses Mohaupt interviews Robin Hemley, author of How to Change History: A Salvage Project.
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/interview-robin-hemley-author-of-how-to-change-history-a-salvage-project/

INTERVIEW: Robin Hemley, Author of How to Change History: A Salvage Project | Hippocampus Magazine

"Robin Hemley reminds us that life is just as equally absurd as it is heartbreaking, as silly as it is serious – and that it is all worthy of a writer’s observing eyes. " --Hillary Moses Mohaupt

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 2d

NEW BOOK REVIEW: "Selby's narrator may be tender towards nature, but far less tender towards themself." -- Sarah Rosenthal in her review of Hotshot: A Life on Fire by River Selby.
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-hotshot-a-life-on-fire-by-river-selby-2/

REVIEW: Hotshot: A Life on Fire by River Selby | Hippocampus Magazine

"Wildland firefighting in Hotshot is a brutal endeavour, one that often goes unseen and underappreciated." -- from our review of Hotshot by River Selby.

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 2d

NEW INTERVIEW: Amy Eaton speaks with Tania Richard, author of Black Girl from a White Suburb: Finding My Light, Using My Voice.
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/interview-tania-richard-author-of-black-girl-from-a-white-suburb-finding-my-light-using-my-voice/

INTERVIEW: Tania Richard, Author of Black Girl from a White Suburb: Finding My Light, Using My Voice | Hippocampus Magazine

"While her life as an actress is fascinating, her point of view about what it’s like to be the only black person in the room as a child is a voice that is necessary." -- Amy Eaton in her interview w/ Tania Richard

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 2d

"Driving a wooded road wreathed with fern and bramble, I spot a dark divot ahead. My fingers clench the wheel. I brake." – "Mink" by Kathryn Ganfield. Read it here:
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/mink-by-kathryn-ganfield/ #essay

Mink by Kathryn Ganfield | Hippocampus Magazine

"Driving a wooded road wreathed with fern and bramble, I spot a dark divot ahead." -- from the flash essay "Mink" by Kathryn Ganfield.

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 3d

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Marjorie Maddox reviews of Apartness: A Memoir in Essays and Poems by Judy Kronenfeld. #BookReviewhttps://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-apartness-a-memoir-in-essays-and-poems-by-judy-kronenfeld/

Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 3d

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Brian Watson reviews of How the Hell Did I Not Know That? My Midlife Year from Coach to Curiosity by Lucie Frost.

https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-how-the-hell-did-i-not-know-that-my-midlife-year-from-couch-to-curiosity/

REVIEW: How the Hell Did I Not Know That? by Lucie Frost | Hippocampus Magazine

"How The Hell Did I Not Know [by Lucie Frost] has come along to remind me that memoirs can also teach you ... in ways that will keep you laughing." -- Brian Watson

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 3d

"The question I always get asked is, how do I manage it all?" – "Balancing Passions as an Author and College" by McKenna Graf.
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/writing-life-balancing-passions-as-an-author-and-college-by-mckenna-graf/

WRITING LIFE: Balancing Passions as an Author and College By McKenna Graf | Hippocampus Magazine

"How could a 21-year-old publish two books? Surely that’s not enough time to know what you’re doing." -- McKenna Graf

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 3d

"My friends and I had heard ... that Christine wouldn't be coming back, not the next day, not after summer break." – from "At the Beginning of Autumn I Remember the Last Day...
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/at-the-beginning-of-autumn-i-remember-the-last-days-of-6th-grade-by-gregory-emilio/

At the Beginning of Autumn I Remember the Last Days of 6th Grade by Gregory Emilio | Hippocampus Magazine

"...a time of kick-flips, bottle-rockets, first kisses in closets..." -- from At the Beginning of Autumn I Remember the Last Days of 6th Grade by Greg Emilio.

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 13d

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Kristy Wessel reviews All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert.
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-all-the-way-to-the-river-love-loss-and-liberation-by-elizabeth-gilbert/

REVIEW: All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert | Hippocampus Magazine

"[All the Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert is] at times it’s almost too raw to bear, but that’s also what makes it so powerful." -- reviewer Kris Wessel

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 13d

NEW INTERVIEW: Leslie Lindsay speaks with Peter Mendelsund, author of Exhibitionist, a mesmerizing title that's at once a memoir, a journal, and an art book.

https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/interview-peter-mendelsund-author-of-exhibitionist/

INTERVIEW: Peter Mendelsund, Author of Exhibitionist | Hippocampus Magazine

"Exhibitionist is at once a memoir — a journal — and an art book." -- Leslie Lindsay in her intro to her interview with Peter Mendelsund.

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 13d

"The sound of the foghorn blowing low floats up the Mississippi, carries along the creek behind our house, and reaches me in my room where I am counting my earrings[...]" – "Foghorn 1980" by Beth Tillman.https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/foghorn-1980-by-beth-tillman/

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Foghorn 1980 by Beth Tillman | Hippocampus Magazine

"The sound of the foghorn blowing low floats up the Mississippi..." -- from the flash essay "Foghorn 1980" by Beth Tillman in our Sept-Oct 2025 issue.

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 14d

"Theory of Welcome: Boredom opens doors." – "A Transplanted Midwestern Chinese-Filipina's Theories of Life" by Ann Guy. Read it here:
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/a-transplanted-midwestern-chinese-filipina-s-theories-of-life-by-ann-guy/

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A Transplanted Midwestern Chinese-Filipina’s Theories of Life by Ann Guy | Hippocampus Magazine

"Theory of Welcome: Boredom opens doors." -- Ann Guy in her essay "A Transplanted Midwestern Chinese-Filipina’s Theories of Life" in our Sept-Oct 2025 issue.

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 14d

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Marissa Gallerani reviews Queer Devotion: Spirituality Beyond the Binary in Myth, Story, and Practice by Charlie Claire B... https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/review-queer-devotion-spirituality-beyond-the-binary-in-myth-story-and-practice-by-charlie-claire-burgess/ #BookReview

Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 15d

INTERVIEW: Michèle Dawson Haber interviews Jennifer Pastiloff, author of Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking fo... #interview

https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/interview-jennifer-pastiloff-author-of-proof-of-life-let-go-let-love-and-stop-looking-for-permission-to-live-your-life/

INTERVIEW: Jennifer Pastiloff, Author of Proof of Life: Let Go, Let Love, and Stop Looking for Permission to Live Your Life | Hippocampus Magazine

Proof of Life [by Jennifer Pastilloff] imparts meaning simultaneously obvious and revelatory. -- Michele Dawson Haber in her interview intro.

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 15d

"If you're like me, and I hope there are others like me, writing is hard." – "Guerrilla Writing" by Gary Smothers.
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/writing-life-guerrilla-writing-by-gary-smothers/ #WritingLife

Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 15d

"Johnny told me he never saw the gun. He didn't know what hit him, people say. Johnny really didn't." – from "Pistol Whipped" by Aimee Seiff Christian. Read it here:

https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/09/pistol-whipped-by-aimee-seiff-christian/

Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · 16d

Explore the Archives! Since 2011, Hippocampus Magazine has published more than 140 issues full of essays, articles, and more. Like a good rerun, there's lots to enjoy again or enjoy for the first time. Browse all back issues here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/past-issues-archive/

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · Sep 15

Explore the Archives! Since 2011, Hippocampus Magazine has published more than 140 issues full of essays, articles, and more. Like a good rerun, there's lots to enjoy again or enjoy for the first time. Browse all back issues here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/past-issues-archive/

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our next bimonthly issue hits "shelves" this week! Be on the lookout for new essays, flash CNF, reviews, interviews, and columns soon! Until then, there's much to explore in our current edition and the archives!

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Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · Sep 7

WRITING LIFE: "There's a well-worn trope in the literary world that publishing a book is an act of creation analogous to producing a human life." – "Publishing and Infertility" by Amy Gallo Ryan. R...
https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/writing-life-publishing-and-infertility-by-amy-gallo-ryan/

Hippocampus Magazine & Books @hippocampusmag.bsky.social · Sep 7

"...instead of allowing fear to guide her pen, Lichtenstein takes honest inventory of the parts that made her and make her who she is." – Amy Goldmacher in a review of "Body: My Life in Parts" by Nina B. ... https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/08/review-body-my-life-in-parts-by-nina-b-lichtenstein/

REVIEW: Body: My Life in Parts by Nina B. Lichtenstein | Hippocampus Magazine

In Body: My Life in Parts, Nina B. Lichtenstein reckons with middle age, menopause, and the uncertainty of health and wellness in this phase of life.

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