Personal Essays, Reviews, & Journalism

The New York Times: A Singer Lends Her Voice to a Conversation About Autism

Allison Moorer opens her new memoir, “I Dream He Talks to Me,” with a letter to her nonverbal autistic son, John Henry. The Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter writes, “I wasn’t sure how you would feel about me telling people these things about us, so I wrote every word here imagining you were reading each one over my shoulder.”

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The New York Times: Jill Solloway Goes Completely Transparent

Writers may be familiar with that peculiar sensation that comes in a moment of crisis, trauma or transition when you simultaneously feel all the feelings of that instant and also know, with bone-marrow certainty, that you will one day turn this moment into art. For Jill Soloway, that moment came when the author’s father came out as transgender.

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