• Memoir

    Relationships

    When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

    Hazel Hayes on Seeing Her Characters’ Relationship Problems Mirror Her Own

     
    By Hazel Hayes  April 24, 2024
    The Hub

    Sad about Pitchfork? Try one of these classic collections of music writing.

    By Brittany Allen  April 23, 2024
    Shakespeare

    Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

    By Literary Hub  April 23, 2024
    In Conversation

    Sasha Vasilyuk on the Price of Secrecy in Russia and Ukraine

    By Jane Ciabattari  April 23, 2024
    Queer Literature

    Dorothy Allison: “In the Stories We Share and Those We Have Not Yet Crafted—We Live Forever”

    By Dorothy Allison  April 22, 2024
    Birds

    “We are Here.” On Rediscovering Safety and Beauty in the Wonders of Nature

    By Aimee Nezhukumatathil  April 22, 2024
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Fathers and Daughters

    Two Vietnams: Chronicling a Father and Daughter’s Shared Love For the Same Country

    By Christina Vo  April 22, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    How Much is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time

    By Ryan Chapman  April 19, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    Writing As Labor: Doing More With Less, Together

    By David Hill  April 18, 2024
    Libraries

    The Creators of a Bicycle-Powered Library Reflect on Its Humble Beginnings

    Laura Moulton and Ben Hodgson on Bringing Books to Underserved Communities

    By Laura Moulton and Ben Hodgson  April 24, 2024
    On The Self

    The Journey of a Madwoman: Between Facts, Memory, and a Fractured Self

    By Suzanne Scanlon  April 18, 2024
    On Grief

    Facing That Which Haunts You: Ethel Rohan on Writing About Grief

    By Ethel Rohan  April 18, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    The Money Diaries: Real Writers, Real Budgets

    By Literary Hub  April 17, 2024
    The Myth of the Middle Class Writer

    In Service: Writers on Making Ends Meet in the Service Industry

    “It’s easy to remain clueless about how the world works for most people.”

    By Literary Hub  April 17, 2024
    Graphic Memoir

    Creativity and Cuervo: On Growing Up in My Family’s Liquor Store

    By Eddie Ahn  April 17, 2024
    On Writing

    Thriving in Discomfort: SJ Kim on Writing About and Through Displacement

    By SJ Kim  April 17, 2024
    On Reading

    The Time I Stole Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York and Couldn’t Stop Reading It

    By Elwin Cotman  April 16, 2024
    Writing the Book

    Brianna Pastor Had to Write About Her Grief and Shame to Begin Healing

    The Author of “Good Grief” on the Bittersweet Experience of Writing Her Poetry Collection

    By Brianna Pastor  April 16, 2024
    Palestine

    Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

    By Ben Ehrenreich  April 15, 2024
    Dance

    Revisiting Pilobolus: On Finding Community in Dance

    By Robert Pranzatelli  April 11, 2024
    Writing from Grief and Loss

    Tide In, Tide Out: Anne Lamott on Growing Old and Making Peace with Death

    By Anne Lamott  April 10, 2024
    Reading

    How Dyslexia Made Me More Passionate About Reading (and Selling) Books

    Cappy Yarbrough on Her Complicated Relationship with Books, Working at a Bookstore, and Dealing with a Wild Range of Customers

    By Cappy Yarbrough  April 10, 2024
    Icons

    Shock, Awe, and Fun: How David Jones Became David Bowie

    By Suzi Ronson  April 8, 2024
    On The Self

    Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

    By Mairead Small Staid  April 8, 2024
    On Grief

    The Permanent Parish of Ceasing to Be: On Suicide as a Negation of the Self

    By Thomas Lynch  April 18, 2024
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