What My Father & I Don’t Talk About, Ed. Michele Filgate

What My Father & I Don’t Talk About, Ed. Michele Filgate

Reviewed by Brian WatsonAnthologies are an inherently risky business. In What My Father and I Don’t Talk About: 16 Writers Break the Silence (Simon & Schuster; May 2025), editor Michele Filgate builds on the success of her earlier project, What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, and recruits fifteen other writers to join her in musing about our relationships with our fathers. Although the risks of such an anthology include an unevenness of result…