Mike McClelland

Nov 7, 2024 | chireviewofbooks.com | Mike McClelland

In his essay “Emily Brontë and Wuthering Heights,” Lord David Cecil asserts that “Emily Brontë’s imagination is the most extraordinary that ever applied itself to English fiction.” What, then, of Kathe Koja’s? With her Catherine the Ghost, Koja has taken our primary artifact of Brontë’s brilliance, the great gothic novel Wuthering Heights, and imagined, at last, a unique yet fitting voice for the novel’s tragic heroine, Catherine.

Jul 22, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Liza Katz Duncan |Natalie Jabbar |Mike McClelland |Melody Glenn

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I reprinted “Without Repentance, No Forgiveness” by .

Jul 15, 2024 | rsn.org | Mike McClelland

After my nervous breakdown during a police stop, I learned a cottage industry exposes bodycam footage to online titillationA dear friend texted me in February, saying: “Hey sweetie, the bodycam footage of you getting arrested got leaked on YouTube.” My fingers typed out a quick reply – “Omg lol haha what?” – as the rest of my body cramped in horror. Surely it wasn’t anything too bad?

Jun 16, 2024 | chireviewofbooks.com | Mike McClelland

The last time I got out of rehab, I bought two things: an Apple watch (because the people in rehab who secretly got texts and emails did so by smuggling in Apple watches, I thought I’d better have one if they sent me back) and a deck of tarot cards. Unlike Alex DiFrancesco, author of the elegant, honest, earnest new memoir Breaking the Curse: A Memoir About Trauma, Healing, and Italian Witchcraft, I have no ancestral links to witchcraft. But I was running out of options.

Jul 17, 2023 | memoirland.substack.com | Milan Kundera |BK Loren |Susan Glickman |Mike McClelland

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring three verticals: Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “The Re-Parent Trap” by . (***Submissions for First Person Singular are now PAUSED.