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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
Road Signs by Holly Abbe. Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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Explore the Archives! Since 2011, Hippocampus Magazine has published more than 140 issues full of essays, articles, and more. Like a good rerun, there's lots to enjoy again or enjoy for the first time. Browse all back issues here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/past-issues-archive/

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
Why Deny the Obvious Child by Camille U. Adams. Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
1001 Nights by Dina Honour. Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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REVIEW: The Company of Owls: A Memoir by Polly Atkin | Hippocampus Magazine Written in short essays, The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin weaves together themes of isolation, chronic pain, and the restorative power of quiet observation.

NEW REVIEW: Aurora D. Bonner reviews The Company of Owls: A Memoir by Polly Atkin.
https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-the-company-of-owls-a-memoir-by-polly-atkin/
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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
Double Dutch by Margaret Luongo. Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
To the Miami University Payroll Lady by Frenci Nguyen. Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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REVIEW: Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice by Jocelyn Jane Cox | Hippocampus Magazine Motion Dazzle by Jocelyn Jane Cox is a tribute to her mother, a love letter to her son, and a testament to resilience as a caregiver.

NEW REVIEW: Emily Webber reviews Motion Dazzle: A Memoir of Motherhood, Loss, and Skating on Thin Ice by Jocelyn Jane Cox.
https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-motion-dazzle-a-memoir-of-motherhood-loss-and-skating-on-thin-ice-by-jocelyn-jane-cox/
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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
God Don't Like Ugly: A Bus Bully Gets Schooled by Brian Broome.

Release date is 3/11. Pre-order ...
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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REVIEW: This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience by Blair Glaser | Hippocampus Magazine In the Incredible Longing: Finding Myself in a Near-Cult Experience, Blair Glaser excels at world-building, using vivid imagery and evocative sensory description to conjure the environment of the ashram.

NEW #BOOKREVIEW: B.K. Jackson reviews This Incredible Longing: Finding My Self in a Near-Cult Experience by Blair Glaser.
https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-this-incredible-longing-finding-myself-in-a-near-cult-experience-by-blair-glaser/

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What our #CNF friends are saying about Selected Memories: "In an era of lies, this book holds personal and deeply considered truth." β€”Sonya Huber, author of Supremely Tiny Acts: A Memoir in a Day, among others

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
Denial by Jane Rucker.

Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
Squatter's Rights by Ryen Nielsen.

Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
This is a Drill by Katie Burgess. Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
Patches by Farah Habib.

Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including: Thrift Store Stories by Leighton Schreyer.

Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including: Blue As In by Matthew Morris.

Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including: I'll Be Seeing You: A Black Woman Travels in 2017 by DW McKinney.
Release date is 3/11. Pre-order y...
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including: Bloody is the Body by Christie Tate.
Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
Streams by Marcos Reyna. Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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WRITING LIFE: Crazy Like A Superpower by David Fowler | Hippocampus Magazine "Collecting, or notetaking, was rigorous and compulsive but it forced me to deeply note events as I lived them..." -from Crazy Like A Superpower by David Fowler

New Writing Life Column: " Crazy Like A Superpower" by David Fowler. Read it here:
https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/writing-life-crazy-like-a-superpower-by-david-fowler/

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REVIEW: Better: A Memoir of Wanting To Die by Arianna Rebolini | Hippocampus Magazine Arianna Rebolini's Better: A Memoir of Wanting To Die is an extraordinary hybrid, weaving confessional narrative, exhaustive research, and cultural analysis.

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Elizabeth Austin takes a look at Better: A Memoir of Wanting To Die by Arianna Rebolini.
https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-better-a-memoir-of-wanting-to-die-by-arianna-rebolini/

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including: Mass by Craig Holt. Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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REVIEW: Second Skin - Anastasiia Fedorova | Hippocampus Mag Second Skin by Anastasiia Fedorova has a sociological framework that interrogates the paradox between private expressions of sexuality and their depictions in larger culture.

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Marissa Gallerani reviews Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire by Anastasiia Fedorova.
https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-second-skin-inside-the-worlds-of-fetish-kink-and-deviant-desire-by-anastasiia-fedorova/
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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
Salisbury Steak Day by Michelle Strausbaugh. Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here:
https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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REVIEW: Uncanny Valley Girls - Zefyr Lisowski | Hippocampus Magazine "As a trans, disabled, and mentally ill woman, Zefyr Lisowski shares how she only saw girls like her being punished." -- from our review of Uncanny Valley Girls

NEW BOOK REVIEW: August Owens Grimm reviews Uncanny Valley Girls: Essays on Horror, Survival, and Love by Zefyr Lisowski.
https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/review-uncanny-valley-girls-essays-on-horror-survival-and-love-by-zefyr-lisowski/
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CRAFT: React or Respond - Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew | Hippocampus Mag "Challenging as it is, we writers can meet the firehose of reactivity with equanimity." -- Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew in her writing life column.

New Craft Column! "React or Respond: A Writer's Choose Your Own Adventure" by Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew.
https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/02/craft-react-or-respond-a-writer-s-choose-your-own-adventure-by-elizabeth-jarrett-andrew/

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Death and Barbers by William F. Schulz | Hippocampus Magazine "Paul Milligan was buried at the very hour he was supposed to be cutting my hair." -- from the essay Death and Barbers by William F. Schulz.

"Sit down. I'll take care of you." –from the essay "Death and Barbers" by William F. Schulz.
https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/death-and-barbers-by-william-f-schulz/
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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
Greed by Tori Walters. Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here: https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2

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BOOK PREVIEW: A peek inside Selected Memories Vol. 2: Fifteen Years of Hippocampus Magazine! Features 31 pieces of CNF, including:
Dead Weight by Claire O'Brien. Release date is 3/11. Pre-order yours here: https://www.booksbyhippocampus.com/store/p/selected-memories-vol-2.

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