E. Ce Miller

http://www.ecemiller.com/

Bio

E. Ce Miller writes about books for Bustle, covering feminist fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and more. Her words have also appeared in Culture Trip, Midwestern Gothic, Sixfold Journal, The Sun Magazine, and elsewhere. She earned her bachelor's degree in Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies and her master's degree in Writing and Publishing from DePaul University. Currently, you can find her in her backyard quietly eating a sandwich. If you'd like to learn more about her work, visit her at www.ecemiller.com.

This New Memoir Will Change How You Think About New Orleans

"I think everyone has a yellow house, really,” says author Sarah M. Broom, of her debut memoir, The Yellow House. Meticulously researched, The Yellow House tells the story of a section of New Orleans that many readers will not be familiar with, New…

By E. Ce Miller

How You Can Turn Regular Listening Into "Radical Listening"

Jennifer Pastiloff really listens to people. That alone is clear even in the way she replies to emails, how she engages with social media. For whatever brief moments it might take to read a few questions or comments and type a reply, she’s with…

By E. Ce Miller

What I Learned Re-Reading 'Big Little Lies' After #MeToo

If you don’t know by now, Big Little Lies, author Liane Moriarty’s gut-grinding novel about wealth, motherhood, and domestic violence, was first published in 2014. The HBO adaptation — if you missed it, starring Nicole Kidman, Reece Witherspoon,…

By E. Ce Miller

This Is An Essential New Novel About LGBTQIA+ Identity, Immigration, & The American Dream

Immigration to the United States reminds Patsy of the Rapture. “People would leave ailing parents, spouses, and newborn babies if they have the opportunity to live and work in America,” she thinks, in Nicole Dennis-Benn’s new novel, Patsy. And Patsy…

By E. Ce Miller

15 Ways To Organize Your Bookshelves, For Every Personality Type

As I sit here writing this, just hours away from moving half-way across the country, my own bookshelves look remarkably similar to cardboard boxes. (Because they are.) But prior to The Great Book Boxing Up Of 2019, I had some time to consider how to…

By E. Ce Miller

9 Travel Books That Will Seriously Spark Your Summer Wanderlust

The first official day of summer is just weeks away, and for some people, those long days of warm weather mean just one thing: that the season of wanderlust is in full swing, and it’s time to hit the road. Or the air! Or the sea! (Or, whatever else…

By E. Ce Miller

This Memoir About Postpartum Depression Might Help You Realize It's Not The "New Normal"

Halfway through reading Teresa Wong’s graphic memoir, Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression, I turn the page to find a simple, black-and-white drawing of a skull in profile. Wong titled the image "My Depressed Mind." The brain is…

By E. Ce Miller

'Gone Girl' Meets 'The Yellow Wallpaper' In This Novel About Open Marriage

Less-than-traditional manifestations of marriage have become increasingly mainstream in our Puritanically-rooted culture, with mixed results. They’re glorified, politicized, and villainized, to varying degrees. Open marriage is the topic broiling at…

By E. Ce Miller

In This New Book, A "Farm" For Surrogate Mothers Hides Dark Truths

When author Joanne Ramos began writing her debut novel, The Farm, she hadn’t written fiction in 20 years. "I think as an immigrant it just wasn’t in my worldview that I could make a living by making up stories,” Ramos tells Bustle. "It didn’t seem…

By E. Ce Miller

9 Books That Prove Mindfulness Doesn't Have To Be Scary Or Boring

Is it just me, or is "mindfulness" suddenly everywhere these days? From the classroom to the corporate world, mindfulness isn’t just for Tibetan monks and New York yogis anymore — it’s for everyone. And the scientifically-proven benefits of…

By E. Ce Miller