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Ambivalent Comfort in “The Loneliness Files” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsOctober 12, 2023 by Jenny Bartoy

[ad_1] Athena Dixon is lonely. A middle-aged single woman without children or pets, she lives alone and works remotely, more than 350 miles from her family. In The Loneliness Files, a thought-provoking memoir in essays, she explores the many facets of her solitude and what they lead her to understand about herself and the world … Read more

Renarritivizing Violence Against Women in “The Comfort of Monsters” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsJuly 14, 2021 by Michael Welch

[ad_1] I was first introduced to Willa C. Richards’s The Comfort of Monsters in a 2018 graduate-level writing workshop when Willa brought in two early chapters for discussion. It was the type of reading experience a reader never forgets. In the excerpt, the narrator Peg remembers going to a bar in Milwaukee’s Walker’s Point neighborhood … Read more