Literary Locales Found on No Map: Five Novels Set in Realistic But Imaginary Places

Literary Locales Found on No Map: Five Novels Set in Realistic But Imaginary Places

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By Dan Fesperman | July 22, 2025

Hypergraphia: On Prolific Writers and the Persistent Need to Produce

Hypergraphia: On Prolific Writers and the Persistent Need to Produce

Ed Simon Considers the Habits and Processes of a Group of Critically and Commercially Acclaimed Authors

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The Stories That Shape Us: On Navigating the Aftermath of Suicide in Memoir

The Stories That Shape Us: On Navigating the Aftermath of Suicide in Memoir

Ruthie Ackerman: “We are everything that ever happened to us.”

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Kirstin Koval on the Layers of Empathy

Kirstin Koval on the Layers of Empathy

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W. Kamau Bell on Creating Conversations in a Complicated, Comedic World

W. Kamau Bell on Creating Conversations in a Complicated, Comedic World

From the Memoir Nation Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

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On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force 

On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force 

Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the Importance of the Singular Image

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | July 18, 2025

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Even Better the Second (or Third, or Fourth...) Time: In Praise of Re-Reading

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Robert Macfarlane on Crossing the Terrain

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Jeff Hiller on The Celebrity Memoir

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Irenosen Okojie on Creating New Mythologies

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