Here is the interview I conducted for Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies with WAVEFORM's editor Marcia Aldrich and contributor Jocelyn Bartkevicius. It's a wonderful anthology! Thank you.https://assayjournal.wordpress.com/20...

4.5/5 Filled with a delightful collection of old and new talent, I'll definitely make a point of revisiting several of these essays.

Waveform is a collection of thirty essays by women writers. Although these aren't all necessarily your typical version of the essay—some follow traditional form while other present their stories in an array of non-traditional forms. This speaks to the diversity of the women included in this collection. The essays cover a wide range of topics, from things you would expect from specifically women writers such as the experience of childbirth, understand relationships, etc., and to other topics that...

These thirty essays by contempory authors gives us a wide girth of women's writing. Excellent and I highly recommend this book with so many moving essays.A couple of quotes:"Real fear is quiet when it comes." Alexandria Margano-Lesnevich writing about the bull fights at Angolia prison outside of New Orleans."SUPPLE. Fiction is the unreeling of action, obstacle, and change.""LOAMY. Poetry is internal awareness opening through language.""BRIGHT. Nonfiction is the attention and illumination of real...

I enjoy essays - they give you a quick insight into usually deep subjects and in this way this book delivers. Thirty women have composed thought provoking stories. However, most of the essays I found to be depressing. The thought that women of today have so much negative in their lives made me wonder why the women in my life do not - maybe we are all just very lucky.

This is one of my favorite book of essays I have read. The content while all following the same theme are written so beautifully and each author takes a fantastic approach to the theme of the women’s body.One of favorite essays in “Waveform” is “This is How I Spell My Body.” Paramo takes a beautiful abecedarian approach to writing about all the beautiful and not so beautiful parts of her body.

I loved this diverse collection of modern essays. My only complaint is that most of the subjects were middle-aged or older. As a woman in her 20’s, it would have been nice to hear from a woman in her 20’s!

I read There Are Distances between Us by Roxane Gay for class. Very good short story utilizing the theme of structure.

I loved this anthology and the diverse range of stories and voices it represented- it took me so long to read because I really wanted to savor each one. My favorites are as follows, but altogether I think this is a great anthology. There were really only a few essays I found myself breezing through, which is impressive in a collection this big. The essays I loved the most were (the asterisks are my absolute favorites):- Tiny Beautiful Things, by Cheryl Strayed (One of my favorite authors, and I

This is a collection of personal experiences written by women. Some of these are really good and some I could really leave. Overall, I found it incredibly depressing. I get that these are stories that need to be told. Perhaps, I am just not the target reader. I could only take so much of this at a time.

A complex and challenging (and rewarding) set of essays by women. I love that it's not fixed on the theme of "women's experiences," but rather, as the intro states, "the writers' interaction with all manner of subject and circumstance." I highly recommend this for book clubs and courses that focus on contemporary women writers -- Aldrich has done a fantastic job editing (and curating) this important collection, and it's ready and waiting for lessons and discussions among up-and-coming writers.

GNAB I received a free electronic copy of this collection from Netgalley, editor Marcia Aldrich, and University of Georgia Press. Thank you all, for sharing your hard work with me. This collection of short stories is a fast read that will have your quiet time filled with the thought of new perspectives. There was not a story in here that did not require time to absorb and bend your brain around. I was very impressed, and found a couple of new authors to add to my list of must reads. Thank you!pu...

Will add full review in a fewETA Review:I knew I wasn't going to love every entry in this collection because that's what always happens when I read things by multiple contributors, but at least the essays I loved, I loved enough to not give the collection an overall poor rating. I really, REALLY loved the following: - Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed (absolute fave, 11/10)- Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain by Leslie Jamison (this one was really long and sort of hard to read and really

In the preface to Waveform, the editor writes, "This book is not a memorial. Although we need to remember the women writers who have come before, this book is about women writing essays now. The wave is an image that catches the sense and motion that define the current movement, its fluidity and momentum." This essay certainly has momentum-- so much, in fact, that I would sit down to peruse just one essay and find myself dragged into the current of two or three. A few things to appreciate about

this is a phenomenal collection of essays & I am so glad I got to read it. overall I really enjoyed reading all essays in this collection - which rarely happens with me - and I also noted down the names of a number of the contributors as I was reading because I was loving their essays so much that I wanted to read something more by them. if you enjoy reading essays or have enjoyed the work of some of these contributors in the past then this is definitely the book for you & if you haven't read ma...

For the most part, painfully mediocre.

Note: I received a free copy of this book through NetGalley.With the rise of the internet and the subsequent explosion of online publications, the essay has gained newfound importance in the literary landscape. On a daily basis--more than books or short stories or poems--I read essays. Those essays tend to be about pop culture, films, books, and everything in between. So I was intrigued when I came across Waveform. I thought it would be something that I’d like, and I was definitely right.Wavefor...

An amazing look at what women writers are doing with form and content in the 21st century. The diversity of the collection is also to be applauded.