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

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.”

By Lynn Steger Strong | April 7, 2025

A Strange and Uncomfortable Coupling: My Summer of Susan Faludi and Karl Ove Knausgaard

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

By Lynn Steger Strong | November 8, 2022

Navigating Broken Systems: Taylor Harris on Writing a Memoir of Medical Motherhood

Navigating Broken Systems: Taylor Harris on Writing a Memoir of Medical Motherhood

Lynn Steger Strong in Conversation with Taylor Harris

By Lynn Steger Strong | January 10, 2022

Reckoning with Sentiment (and Writing the Unsaid) in a Novel About Motherhood

Reckoning with Sentiment (and Writing the Unsaid) in a Novel About Motherhood

Lynn Steger Strong in Conversation with Jessica Winter

By Lynn Steger Strong | March 10, 2021

Neither of Us Likes Parties: Lynn Strong and Rumaan Alam in Conversation

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

By Lynn Steger Strong | October 13, 2020

To Make Light From Pain: Mourning Ruth Bader Ginsburg

To Make Light From Pain: Mourning Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Lynn Steger Strong on the Death of an Unlikely Icon

By Lynn Steger Strong | September 21, 2020

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How Did Elizabeth Wurtzel Survive Us?

By Lynn Steger Strong | January 9, 2020

What Not to Expect From a Grad School Workshop

By Lynn Steger Strong | September 6, 2019

The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural

By Lynn Steger Strong | May 30, 2019

Luke Perry, Dylan McKay, and the Myth of the 'Bad Boy'

Luke Perry, Dylan McKay, and the Myth of the 'Bad Boy'

On Loving and Mourning an Illusion

By Lynn Steger Strong | March 8, 2019

The Privilege of Plotlessness

The Privilege of Plotlessness

Lynn Steger Strong on Reading About Rich People While the World Burns

By Lynn Steger Strong | December 18, 2017

When Femininity is Code for Feelings

When Femininity is Code for Feelings

On Failure, Motherhood, and Flightless Birds

By Lynn Steger Strong | March 15, 2017

To Be A Mother, To Be A Writer

To Be A Mother, To Be A Writer

Lynn Steger Strong on seeking the life of The Writer

By Lynn Steger Strong | March 31, 2016