Ellen Wayland-Smith

Ellen Wayland-Smith is associate professor of Writing at USC Dornsife College. She is the author of Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table (Picador, 2016) and The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America (UChicago Press, 2020).

The Missing: On Sasha LaPointe’s “Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk”

Ellen Wayland-Smith explores the meanings of exile and impermanence “Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk” by Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe....

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

Of Grace and Pain: On Ashley C. Ford’s “Somebody’s Daughter”

Ellen Wayland-Smith explores Ashley C. Ford’s “Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir.”...

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

Black Childhood as Idyll: On Vivian Gibson’s “The Last Children of Mill Creek”

Ellen Wayland-Smith reviews Vivian Gibson’s memoir of growing up in St. Louis....

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

Los Angeles Review of Books

The Utopian Turn in YA Lit

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YOUNG ADULT & CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Los Angeles Review of Books

East of Eden: On Rachel Monroe’s “Savage Appetites”

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CULTURAL STUDIES

GENDER & SEXUALITY

Los Angeles Review of Books

Treasures on Earth and in Heaven: On Briallen Hopper’s “Hard to Love”

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

Los Angeles Review of Books

(Again?) Again: Reading Leslie Jamison’s “The Recovering”

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

Los Angeles Review of Books

The Alchemy of Pain: Melissa Febos’s “Abandon Me”

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

Los Angeles Review of Books

Imaginary Children: “The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhood”

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MEMOIR & ESSAY

GENDER & SEXUALITY

Los Angeles Review of Books

Oneida: The Christian Utopia Where Contraception Was King

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