Tag Archives: Creative Nonfiction

“On Being Ill” by Virginia Woolf

Woolf dared to write about illness when it was a taboo subject
Posted on April 20, 2018 by Laura B Hayden (Blog Writer, Sevenponds)

  Most recognized for her feminist novels, Virginia Woolf also broke literary barriers tackling a topic previously shunned by American writers: sickness. “On Being Ill” first appeared in 1926, in an early issue of T.S. Eliot’s literary review, the New Criterion. In the essay, Woolf seeks … Continue reading →

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“At the End of Life: True Stories of How We Die” Edited by Lee Gutkind

An enlightening book takes us into the hearts of people touched by death
Posted on December 9, 2016 by Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds

Lee Gutkind’s “At the End of Life: True Stories of How We Die” is not an an easy read. True stories about death and suffering rarely are. Nor is it what most of us would think of as an entertaining … Continue reading →

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