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Lynn Steger Strong

Lynn Steger Strong
Lynn Steger Strong is the author of two novels, Hold Still, and Want. Her nonfiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Guernica, Catapult, LARB, and elsewhere. She teaches both fiction and nonfiction writing at Columbia University, Fairfield University, and the Pratt Institute.


Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction

“The goal is not to tell the reader the facts as they happened, but to, hopefully, bring a bunch of sentences and paragraphs to imagistic life.”
April 7, 2025  By Lynn Steger Strong
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A Strange and Uncomfortable Coupling: My Summer of Susan Faludi and Karl Ove Knausgaard

Lynn Steger Strong on the Power of the Narratives We Build Around Narratives
November 8, 2022  By Lynn Steger Strong
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Navigating Broken Systems: Taylor Harris on Writing a Memoir of Medical Motherhood

Lynn Steger Strong in Conversation with Taylor Harris
January 10, 2022  By Lynn Steger Strong
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Reckoning with Sentiment (and Writing the Unsaid) in a Novel About Motherhood

Lynn Steger Strong in Conversation with Jessica Winter
March 10, 2021  By Lynn Steger Strong
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Neither of Us Likes Parties: Lynn Strong and Rumaan Alam in Conversation

On Family, Art, Work, and Alam's Latest Novel
Leave the World Behind
October 13, 2020  By Lynn Steger Strong
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To Make Light From Pain: Mourning Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Lynn Steger Strong on the Death of an Unlikely Icon
September 21, 2020  By Lynn Steger Strong
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How Did Elizabeth Wurtzel Survive Us?

Lynn Steger Strong: "We ask them to flay themselves open and we celebrate it."
January 9, 2020  By Lynn Steger Strong
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What Not to Expect From a Grad School Workshop

Lynn Steger Stronger is Not Giving Out Business Advice
September 6, 2019  By Lynn Steger Strong
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The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural

Lynn Steger Strong on New Books By Jamil Zaki and Christian Kiefer
May 30, 2019  By Lynn Steger Strong
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Luke Perry, Dylan McKay, and the Myth of the ‘Bad Boy’

On Loving and Mourning an Illusion
March 8, 2019  By Lynn Steger Strong
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The Privilege of Plotlessness

Lynn Steger Strong on Reading About Rich People While the World Burns
December 18, 2017  By Lynn Steger Strong
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When Femininity is Code for Feelings

On Failure, Motherhood, and Flightless Birds
March 15, 2017  By Lynn Steger Strong
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To Be A Mother, To Be A Writer

Lynn Steger Strong on seeking the life of The Writer
March 31, 2016  By Lynn Steger Strong
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