TOM SPANBAUER’S NEW BOOK I Loved You More isn’t a memoir. It reads like a memoir: first person, introspective, reminiscent. It looks like one: It’s published by Hawthorne Books, a local house that’s built a reputation in part on the strength of personal narratives like Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Chronology of Water, Jay Ponteri’s Wedlocked, and […]
Now Is the Hour
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Now Is the Hour by Tom Spanbauer
Review by Will Gardner
For those unfamiliar with Tom Spanbauer’s legendary local writing workshops, “dangerous writing” can be summed up as unsullied candor in literary writing—both prose and poetry. Though this may initially seem simple to do—especially as memoirs are the latest “in” thing, memories can be quite treacherous to traverse. In a recent conversation, Spanbauer recently told me […]