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Michele Filgate

Michele Filgate
Michele Filgate is the editor of What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About and What My Father and I Don’t Talk About. Her writing has appeared in Longreads, Poets & Writers, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Gulf Coast, Oprah Daily, and many other publications. She received her MFA in Fiction from NYU, where she was the recipient of the Stein Fellowship. She teaches at The New School.


Ways of Remembering: A Father and Daughter Navigate Loss Together

“Is this my family’s thing? The need to pin memories down, preserve them in a drawer, put a frame around them?”
May 8, 2025  By Michele Filgate
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Live at the Red Ink Series: On Avoidance

Featuring Sarah Thankam Mathews, Elissa Bassist, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Sari Botton, and Kayla Maiuri
November 10, 2022  By Michele Filgate
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Live at the Red Ink Series: On “little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.”

Featuring Samantha Hunt, Madhushree Ghosh, Ursula Villarreal-Moura, Annabelle Gurwitch, and Naheed Phiroze Patel
September 6, 2022  By Michele Filgate
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Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing and Dreams

Featuring Claire Messud, Julia May Jonas, Jean Chen Ho, Emily Maloney, and Daphne Palasi Andreades
May 16, 2022  By Michele Filgate
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Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family’s History

The Author of Inheritance in Conversation with Michele Filgate
May 16, 2019  By Michele Filgate
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Yiyun Li, Trying to Find the Words to Grieve

The Author of Where Reasons End in Conversation with Michele Filgate
February 14, 2019  By Michele Filgate
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Jesmyn Ward on the Hauntings of History

The Author of Sing, Unburied, Sing Michele Filgate
October 5, 2017  By Michele Filgate
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Samantha Irby Needs to Talk About Some Sh*t

Michele Filgate Talks to the Very Funny Author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life
May 31, 2017  By Michele Filgate
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30 Books in 30 Days: Lab Girl

Michele Filgate on Hope Jahren's New Memoir
March 13, 2017  By Michele Filgate
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The Most Important Books of the Last Twenty Years

An informal survey of contemporary writers...
December 30, 2016  By Michele Filgate
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D. Foy on the Violence We Channel From One Generation to the Next

In Conversation with Michele Filgate on his New Novel Patricide
November 3, 2016  By Michele Filgate
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How to Solve a Book Emergency

What to Do When You Find Yourself Stuck Without Reading Material
August 11, 2016  By Michele Filgate
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The Feminist Library on Wheels: A Roaming Tool for Social Justice

Providing Objects of Liberaration (Books!) to Greater Los Angeles
June 29, 2016  By Michele Filgate
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How Books Are Helping Austin’s Homeless Community

Street Lit: Finding Hope Through Literature
May 16, 2016  By Michele Filgate
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Writers, The Loneliest Artists of All

Michele Filgate on Solitude, Melissa Broder, and Olivia Laing
May 4, 2016  By Michele Filgate
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Who Will Win Bookstore of the Year?

Talking to the Finalists for the Publishers Weekly Award
March 24, 2016  By Michele Filgate
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30 Books in 30 Days: Michele Filgate on Vivian Gornick’s The Odd Woman and the City

COUNTING DOWN THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS FINALISTS
March 10, 2016  By Michele Filgate
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Writing Workshops LA: Beware of Dog!

Michele Filgate Talks to Edan Lepucki About West Coast Writing Community
January 22, 2016  By Michele Filgate
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Up in the Attic: A Writers’ Haven in Portland

In Search of Literary Community, Outside the MFA
January 13, 2016  By Michele Filgate
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A 200-Year-Old Writing Center

Noreen Tomassi Tells Michele Filgate About the Origins of the Center for Fiction
January 6, 2016  By Michele Filgate
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