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A Dream Job Too Good To Be True, a Story Too Weird to Believe

A Dream Job Too Good To Be True, a Story Too Weird to Believe

Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman, Mediocre Violinist, on Playing for "The Composer"

By Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman | February 7, 2019

One Family's Story of the Great Migration North

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Bridgett M. Davis Tracks Her Mother's Journey from Nashville to Detroit

By Bridgett M. Davis | January 30, 2019

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"Let ’em simmer till the greens are the texture you want."

By Ntozake Shange | January 29, 2019

When the Sentimental Clutter in Your Life is a Whole Piano

When the Sentimental Clutter in Your Life is a Whole Piano

Chris Cander on the Story That Inspired The Weight of a Piano

By Chris Cander | January 24, 2019

Dani Shapiro: Did My Parents Even Know?

Dani Shapiro: Did My Parents Even Know?

On Unraveling the Mystery of My Conception

By Dani Shapiro | January 23, 2019

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It's Taken 40 Years For Me to Write About the Day My Brother Died

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