Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

Write Who You Love: J. Ryan Stradal on Memorializing His Mother Through Fiction

"Over time I learned how to stare into that loss, a loss that brought more pain and longing than I’d ever felt, and pull her back through it."

By J. Ryan Stradal | October 16, 2023

Stories About Myself: The Narratives and Realities of my Childhood in an Urban Commune

Stories About Myself: The Narratives and Realities of my Childhood in an Urban Commune

Pamela Newton Reflects on Alexander Stille's The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

By Pamela Newton | October 16, 2023

On Safiya Sinclair, Noreen Masud and Exposing the Sins of Our Fathers

On Safiya Sinclair, Noreen Masud and Exposing the Sins of Our Fathers

Lily Dunn on the Aftermath of Writing a Memoir About Fathers

By Lily Dunn | October 16, 2023

Raising the Dead from Paper: Katharine Quarmby on Fiction's Friendly Ghosts

Raising the Dead from Paper: Katharine Quarmby on Fiction's Friendly Ghosts

"Remembering is both an act of restitution and of defiance."

By Katharine Quarmby | October 16, 2023

Celia Brayfield on How Anna Sewell Changed Animal Rights

Celia Brayfield on How Anna Sewell Changed Animal Rights

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | October 16, 2023

Rainbow Rowell on the Love of Fan Fiction

Rainbow Rowell on the Love of Fan Fiction

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | October 16, 2023

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<em>Halloween</em> at 45: How Horror’s Scariest Franchise Makes Sense of the Senseless

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What Does Playing the Devil Incarnate Do to a Young Girl?

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Marlena Williams on Linda Blair’s Infamous Role in The Exorcist

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Dorothea Lasky on the Power of Horror

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The Divided Self is Every Immigrant’s Legacy

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Thrity Umrigar on Fitting in in America

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The Bear Whisperer Lays Out the Profound Impact of Wildfires on Southern California's Black Bear Population

The Bear Whisperer Lays Out the Profound Impact of Wildfires on Southern California's Black Bear Population

"I am surrounded by these bears that have been my life’s work. Bears, bears, everywhere, lost and in need."

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Living the Questions: Lisa C. Krueger on the Shared Foundations of Therapy and Poetry

Living the Questions: Lisa C. Krueger on the Shared Foundations of Therapy and Poetry

"Therapy, like poetry, requires us to embrace mystery."

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Road to Avonlea: Amanda Parrish Morgan on The Transportive Intimacy of Reading and Long Drives

Road to Avonlea: Amanda Parrish Morgan on The Transportive Intimacy of Reading and Long Drives

"The car, the book, the trip—all means of getting somewhere unknown together."

By Amanda Parrish Morgan | October 13, 2023

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