Some of the highlights for me from this collection were "Portrait of a Family: Crooked and Straight" by Wendy Rawlings and "Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain" by Leslie Jamison. I loved this book of essays.

This is a very interesting although academic book. Some of the essays may be too esoteric for the average reader, but those who like it will love it. This would be a thoughtful read for someone who is looking for more in-depth feminist essays than are commonly found in a bookstore / public library.

http://bookriot.com/2017/03/21/read-these-essay-collections-winterspring-2017-edition/

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.

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 many essay collections but want to pick one up I encourage you to read this one because there is such a wide array of material in this one & I'm sure something will stand out to you.

<i>Waveform</i> 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 aren't specifically related to women, but provide just as much thought-provoking stimuli while absorbing each essay. Many of the topics are serious, though they don't all leave the reader with a sense of dread at the end. More often than not, these essays explore suffering in a way that acknowledges it, tries to understand its existence, and moves on from there.

If you enjoy reading essays and enjoy the work of women writers, this collection is for you.