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My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

Andrew Palmer Struggles with the Idea of Creating Characters (Partly) Based on an Ex

By Andrew Palmer | August 17, 2021

Smoking Dope and Comparing Bad Reviews: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Discuss the Early Days of Their Collaboration

Smoking Dope and Comparing Bad Reviews: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Discuss the Early Days of Their Collaboration

On the Beginnings of the Iconic Musical Sunday in the Park with George

By James Lapine | August 16, 2021

The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer

The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer

Mike Gayle Tries to Find Community in a Solitary Profession

By Mike Gayle | August 13, 2021

Marc Ribot Makes the Case for Loud Music

Marc Ribot Makes the Case for Loud Music

On the Necessary Pain and Pleasure of Deafening Amplification

By Marc Ribot | August 13, 2021

Aching for the American Dream: On Writing the Delicate Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students

Aching for the American Dream: On Writing the Delicate Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students

Elly Fishman on What It Means to Earn the Trust of Her Teenage Subjects

By Elly Fishman | August 12, 2021

What The (Dixie) Chicks Meant to Me As a Teenager in Namibia

What The (Dixie) Chicks Meant to Me As a Teenager in Namibia

Rémy Ngamije on Vaccination Scarcity and the Immigrant’s Dream of Movement

By Rémy Ngamije | August 12, 2021

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How to Say Goodbye: Cecily Strong’s Eulogy For Her Beloved Cousin Owen

By Cecily Strong | August 11, 2021

Women’s Memoirs at the Intersection of Chronic Illness, Mental Illness, Addiction, and Trauma

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Thereness on the Outer Banks: On Landscape in Literature

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What is This Music? “Drill Isn’t a Genre, It’s an Aesthetic Stance.”

What is This Music? “Drill Isn’t a Genre, It’s an Aesthetic Stance.”

Kit Mackintosh Goes Deep into the Sub-Culture of Brooklyn Drill

By Kit Mackintosh | August 11, 2021

Rebel Without a Real Cause: On Surviving the Social Hierarchies of High School

Rebel Without a Real Cause: On Surviving the Social Hierarchies of High School

Via Bleidner Considers Coming-of-Age in California and the Addictive Validation of Clout

By Via Bleidner | August 10, 2021

The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

James Tate Hill on the Hard Realities of Balancing the Personal and the Creative

By James Tate Hill | August 9, 2021

On Reframing and Overcoming the Bodily Colonization of Stage 4 Cancer

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Fred D'Aguiar Considers the Meaning of Liberation in the Face of a Life-Threatening Disease

By Fred D’Aguiar | August 9, 2021

The Medicine Memoirs That Every Aspiring Doctor Should Read

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Robert Meyer, MD, and Dan Koeppel on the Beauty and Brutality of the Human Experience

By Robert Meyer, MD, and Dan Koeppel | August 9, 2021

What Visiting Plantations Taught Me About Historical Erasure

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LaTanya McQueen on Piecing Together Her Family's Past

By LaTanya McQueen | August 9, 2021

On Loss, Time, and Hope: My Year of Reading Ali Smith’s <em>Seasonal Quartet</em>

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