Claire Phillips
Claire Phillips is the author of the memoir A Room with a Darker View: Chronicles of My Mother & Schizophrenia and the fantastic novella Black Market Babies. Her writing has appeared in Black Clock, Joyland, Largehearted Boy Blog, Los Angeles Review of Books, Motherboard-Vice, and Vol. 1 Brooklyn among other places. She is the recipient of the American Academy of Poets, First Prize, a nominee for a Pushcart Prize, and a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2015.
Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture and A Different Kind of Tension: New and Selected Stories, Jonathan Lethem’s two recent collections spanning decades in his writing life, form a dual capstone that is at once heavy and light, their mood reminiscent of the surreal symbolism of transactional exchanges.
Cross-genre memoir remains enduringly popular. Comedian and cult performer Maria Bamford skillfully contributes to this acclaimed genre with her bestselling memoir, Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere.
