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How to Write a Memoir About Family Tragedy (That People Want to Read)

How to Write a Memoir About Family Tragedy (That People Want to Read)

Abi Morgan: “Nobody wants to read therapy.”

By Abi Morgan | June 27, 2022

Clare Pooley on Writerly Perseverance and Knowing When To Give Up

Clare Pooley on Writerly Perseverance and Knowing When To Give Up

“You must never give up on writing itself. But sometimes you need to give up on what you’re writing.”

By Clare Pooley | June 27, 2022

Mark Kyungsoo Bias on How Hip-Hop Influences His Poetry

Mark Kyungsoo Bias on How Hip-Hop Influences His Poetry

This Week from The Common Podcast

By The Common | June 27, 2022

Kathryn Schulz on Making and Finding Meaning in Memoir

Kathryn Schulz on Making and Finding Meaning in Memoir

From the Write-minded Podcast with Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | June 27, 2022

Nathanial White: Is Pain an Essential Part of the Human Experience?

Nathanial White: Is Pain an Essential Part of the Human Experience?

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | June 27, 2022

Zakiya Dalila Harris on the Writing Soundtracks that Work

Zakiya Dalila Harris on the Writing Soundtracks that Work

"A dance break never hurt anybody."

By Zakiya Dalila Harris | June 24, 2022

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On the Impossible Encounter That Allowed Me to Write My Novel

By June Gervais | June 24, 2022

Marcy Dermansky on Her Shifting Relationship to Film

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | June 24, 2022

Austin Ross on Great Titles, Gross Bugs, and the Chaotic Energy of Submitting Work from Your Phone

By Micro Podcast | June 24, 2022

Mark Kurlansky: Why Short Stories are Pure Storytelling

Mark Kurlansky: Why Short Stories are Pure Storytelling

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | June 24, 2022

Looking for God During the Vietnam War: A Conversation with Elan Barnehama

Looking for God During the Vietnam War: A Conversation with Elan Barnehama

In Conversation with G.P. Gottlieb on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | June 24, 2022

Repetition Ruins a Narrative: On Trying to Create Amid the Sameness of Pandemic Parenting

Repetition Ruins a Narrative: On Trying to Create Amid the Sameness of Pandemic Parenting

Rosalie Knecht Considers the Narrative Machines That Power Fiction and Therapy

By Rosalie Knecht | June 23, 2022

If They Want to Be Published, Literary Writers Can’t Be Honest About Money

If They Want to Be Published, Literary Writers Can’t Be Honest About Money

Naomi Kanakia on the Class Contradictions at the Heart of Publishing

By Naomi Kanakia | June 23, 2022

Sloane Crosley in Defense of New York City’s Single Women

Sloane Crosley in Defense of New York City’s Single Women

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | June 23, 2022

Alex Kiester on Obsessing Over Her Mother’s (Eventual) Death

Alex Kiester on Obsessing Over Her Mother’s (Eventual) Death

“Maybe the only thing death will ever be able to teach us about is life.”

By Alex Kiester | June 23, 2022

Making History: Six Books That Embrace the 1970s

Making History: Six Books That Embrace the 1970s

Yes, Novels Set in the 70s Are Historical Fiction Now

By Donna Gordon | June 23, 2022

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