My new book has a due date! I’ve been writing essays for over fifteen years, and it’s been a glorious ride, but I’ve never put out a collection of just Jill Christman essays between two covers. I’m thrilled to share the news that the good people at the University of Nebraska Press are going to change that by releasing If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in their amazing American Lives series on September 1, 2022. Yippee!
“Mr. Cosmos” at New Ohio Review
The title character of “Mr. Cosmos” is my fifth-grade science teacher from Newbury Elementary School in Massachusetts—a man so wonderful he would leap on his desk and do interpretive dances …
