title: Selected Memories: Five Years of Hippocampus Magazine (Essays)
author: Various
description: Hippocampus is fast becoming one of the best magazines print and online for new creative nonfiction. It is a pleasure to see this well-edited journal bring out a range of its finest pieces from previous issues. Two in particular shine brightly: Lessons in Sign; is a brilliant story told with narrative aplomb, and Until We Have Loved, which contains a masterful use of biological detail plaited with a moving story of love's labor lost on a tiny creature that most of us would not shed a tear for. --J. Michael Lennon, author of Norman Mailer: A Double Life<br /><br />I continue to be impressed by the work published in Hippocampus. Founder Donna Talarico has built a phenomenal magazine -- and community -- dedicated to creative nonfiction, and I am pleased to see some of Hippocampus' most memorable pieces come to life in this print collection. This moving anthology contains coming-of-age stories; stories that reveal deep, dark secrets; stories of love and loss; and some lighter pieces that show the more absurd and hilarious sides of everyday life. A collection for everyone who has ever felt the sharp pain of life, as well as its great joys. The editor is to be commended on her extraordinary work." --Kaylie Jones, author of the memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me<br /><br />This essay is not only sophisticated in taste and execution, it is authentically bold in heart. The heart-stopping language was pitch-perfect from the first sentence to the final note. (On the essay, The Sound of Ice.) --Amy Jo Burns, author of Cinderland
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  Introduction by Ian Rogers
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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