What People Are Saying About Fierce and Delicate:
Library Journal:"An elegant collection of essays from a dancer’s soul that will uplift all readers, especially those who love dance."
Buzzfeed: "Nicholson’s previous experience as a poet is evident in this lyrical and fascinating memoir about reinventing one’s body and purpose."
Renée E. D’Aoust, author of Body of a Dancer: “Many dancers wrestle with one of the central questions of Renée Nicholson’s fabulous book: How does one live as an ex-dancer? The answers Nicholson explores will strongly resonate with those who long to lift the veil that shrouds creative pursuits in unnecessary mystique. I love Nicholson’s powerful prose: how the essays circle in and out of dance, the way movement comes alive on the page, and the articulate grace with which Nicholson writes about sudden disability. In Fierce and Delicate, Nicholson teaches us how to envelop our impossible dreams with gratitude for the life we have now.”
Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire: “Renée Nicholson writes with the grace, determination, and, yes, fierceness needed to succeed in the world of professional dance, so it is no surprise that Fierce and Delicate is such a remarkable and en pointe memoir-in-essays, as breathtaking and beautiful as ballet itself. Nicholson’s voice blends absolute honesty with a lovely, lyrical descriptive style, and each essay is a pure pleasure to read. Bravo!”
Dance International: "Fierce and Delicate: Essays on Dance and Illness, dives into the dance world in an honest way that reveals both its beauty and its brutality."
More place to read about the book, or listen to Renée on podcasts and other broadcasts:
- See Fierce and Delicate on this end-of-year short list from Longreads of books they featured in 2021
- Listen to my discussion with fellow nonfiction writers JT Hill and Megan Culhane Galbraith for Writing Bloc's podcast on what to expect after your book launch.
- Listen to my discussion with How Do You Write podcast.
- Check out this list from Dance Teacher on 2021 books about dance.
- Listen to my discussion with Writer's Voices.
- Read the review at Dance International.
- Read an excerpt from the book in Sanctuary.
- Read the review of the book at Library Journal.
- Check out my discussion with Caryn Sullivan founder of Pretty Wellness and the podcast "Happiness through Hardship."
- Listen to my discussion with Big Blend Radio.
- Read the review of the book at Readers Favorite.
- Check out this review of the book at The Bibliophage
- Read my interview with Deborah Kalb
- Listen to my discussion with Max Bowen of Citywide Blackout
- Watch/Listen to my conversation with Janeane Berstein at KUCI's Get the Funk Out
- Listen to my discussion with Cyrus Webb of Conversations Live
- Check out advance praise at Buzzfeed, along with other books about disability and chronic illness
- Read the interview I had with Southern Review of Books
- Listen to my answers to 5 Questions with the WVU Alumni Association