From activist choruses and discarded musicals to the science of singing and the different ways music can define what’s essential. . .

Six essays
by Michelle Herman

Selected by O: The Oprah Magazine‘s
10 Titles to Pick Up Now

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Praise for The Middle of Everything:
Memoirs of Motherhood

“Michelle Herman knows the truth.”
– Kathryn Harrison

“Fine writing and the sure,
gifted voice of the storyteller prevail.”
– Amy Bloom

“It is a gift to find such candor and honesty.”
– Virginia Quarterly Review


Praise for Stories We Tell Ourselves

“An engaging companion offers a spirit of shared humanity.”
– Kirkus Review

“This persistently amusing and endearingly eccentric book demonstrates the elasticity and élan of the personal essay in the hands of a consummate practitioner, as well as the plentiful resources of its author’s consciousness.”
– Phillip Lopate

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Michelle Herman is the author of Devotion and Dog, both available from Outpost19. Longlisted for the 2014 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Stories We Tell Ourselves, she is also the author of The Middle of Everything (essays), Missing (a novel), and A Girl’s Guide to Life (a book for children). Born and raised in Brooklyn, she has lived for many years in Columbus, Ohio, where she directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Ohio State.