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In Praise of the Glorious Deliverance of Swimming

In Praise of the Glorious Deliverance of Swimming

Michael Parker on Worshipping Water, in Life and Fiction

By Michael Parker | November 21, 2022

A (Tiny) Room of One’s Own: Bruna Dantas Lobato on the Intricate Joy of Miniatures

A (Tiny) Room of One’s Own: Bruna Dantas Lobato on the Intricate Joy of Miniatures

Introducing When I’m Not Writing, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies

By Bruna Dantas Lobato | November 21, 2022

Just Passing Through: On Milton Gendel’s Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

Just Passing Through: On Milton Gendel’s Seven-Decade Roman Holiday

Cullen Murphy Shares the Writer’s Interactions with Josephine Baker, Gore Vidal, Princess Margaret and More

By Cullen Murphy | November 21, 2022

Reflections on Mothering in the Apocalypse

Reflections on Mothering in the Apocalypse

This Week from the Emergence Magazine Podcast

By Emergence Magazine | November 21, 2022

Finding a Hero in Wednesday Addams as a Closeted and Neurodivergent Tween

Finding a Hero in Wednesday Addams as a Closeted and Neurodivergent Tween

Aisling Walsh Celebrates the Return of the Iconic Outcast

By Aisling Walsh | November 18, 2022

Bad Religion’s Greg Gaffin on What the Early Documentaries Got Wrong About the Punk Scene

Bad Religion’s Greg Gaffin on What the Early Documentaries Got Wrong About the Punk Scene

“Punk was becoming stereotyped as having no intellectual merits at all.”

By Greg Graffin | November 18, 2022

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Choosing to Bear Witness: Writing the Story of a Body

By Emily Van Duyne | November 17, 2022

Jeanna Kadlec on Leaving the Evangelical Church

By The Maris Review | November 17, 2022

The Dramatic Consequences of Excluding Homecare Workers from Labor Rights

By Jamie K. McCallum | November 16, 2022

“What Is It You Actually Do?” Jack O’Brien on the Role(s) of a Theater Director

“What Is It You Actually Do?” Jack O’Brien on the Role(s) of a Theater Director

“I’ve been praised for a lighting designer’s contribution, and condemned for a writer’s lack of skill.”

By Jack O'Brien | November 16, 2022

Meg Howrey on Speaking for Her Novel’s Protagonist

Meg Howrey on Speaking for Her Novel’s Protagonist

“I hope the little world that is me disappears under the different world that is her.”

By Meg Howrey | November 15, 2022

Stephanie Land on Putting the Pieces of Your Life Together and Finding Your Way

Stephanie Land on Putting the Pieces of Your Life Together and Finding Your Way

This Week on Twitterverse, a Show About Tweets and the Writers Who Send Them

By Twitterverse | November 15, 2022

Part Armor and Part Theater: Kyle Lucia Wu on Curating Sartorial Courage

Part Armor and Part Theater: Kyle Lucia Wu on Curating Sartorial Courage

Introducing When I’m Not Writing, a Series About Writers and Their Hobbies

By Kyle Lucia Wu | November 14, 2022

Su Cho on Beginning Her Poetic Journey

Su Cho on Beginning Her Poetic Journey

"I never intended to become a poet. It’s just that I was addicted to feeling things strongly and then feeling nothing at all."

By Su Cho | November 14, 2022

Dorthe Nors Spends the Shortest Night of the Year on Denmark’s North Sea Coast

Dorthe Nors Spends the Shortest Night of the Year on Denmark’s North Sea Coast

"Even here, where nature is harshest, it’s soft."

By Dorthe Nors | November 14, 2022

Healing, Then Writing: Confronting Writer's Block in the Early Years of Sobriety

Healing, Then Writing: Confronting Writer's Block in the Early Years of Sobriety

Matthew Quick Writes “a Love Letter to the Redemptive Forces of Story.”

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