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Speaking Freely

Speaking Freely

Robert L. Bernstein

By Lit Hub Excerpts | May 26, 2016

Prelude to a Friendship:

Prelude to a Friendship: "Denise Was Near to the Bone"

Paul Lisicky Remembers the Moment He Met a Lifelong Friend

By Paul Lisicky | May 23, 2016

The Suicide Memoir: True Crime, Mystery, and Grief

The Suicide Memoir: True Crime, Mystery, and Grief

A Brief Look at a Dark Genre

By Candace Opper | May 20, 2016

Jenny Diski, Down the Final Rabbit Hole

Jenny Diski, Down the Final Rabbit Hole

On a Body of Work That Ends Without Ending

By Bridget Read | May 16, 2016

When Two Feminists of Color Fall in Love

When Two Feminists of Color Fall in Love

Ana Castillo on Validation, Rivalry, and Other Women

By Ana Castillo | May 13, 2016

How Surviving ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy Made Me a Better Writer

How Surviving ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy Made Me a Better Writer

Garrard Conley: "I wrote and rewrote again. I wrote in doubt and fear."

By Garrard Conley | May 11, 2016

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My Father the Song Poet

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Mitchell S. Jackson's The Residue Years, Part One

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Was I a Torturer in Iraq?

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The Time I Almost Died On the Appalachian Trail

The Time I Almost Died On the Appalachian Trail

Benjamin Warner Recalls the Great Drought of '99, and a Single Bee Sting

By Benjamin Warner | April 12, 2016

The Iceberg

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Marion Coutts

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 7, 2016

On the Impossibility of Seeing Yourself

On the Impossibility of Seeing Yourself

Kathryn Harrison on Aging, Asymmetry, and Looking in the Mirror

By Kathryn Harrison | April 7, 2016

A Fundamentalist Christian Discovers the Greater World

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Kelly Kerney Has an Awakening in College and Follows it All the Way to Guatemala

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In Conversation with the Author of All Tomorrow's Parties

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On Maggie Nelson's <em>The Red Parts</em>, Ten Years Later

On Maggie Nelson's The Red Parts, Ten Years Later

How the book paved the way for the The Argonauts

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