• Memoir

    Personal Essay

    I Used to Be a Writer—Then I Got Sick

    By Emma Smith-Stevens  August 3, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Never Meet Your (Anti-)Heroes: My Correspondence with Bill Knott

    By Jeff Alessandrelli  August 1, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Writing Let Me Take Control of My Own Story

    By Jennie Melamed  July 28, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How the Witchcraft of Clarice Lispector Saved My Life

    By Veronica Esposito  July 25, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Mothers Who Leave Their Children

    By Melissa Chadburn  July 24, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A First-Hand Account of Severe Autism

    By Naoki Higashida  July 20, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Rebecca Solnit on a Childhood of Reading and Wandering

    By Rebecca Solnit  July 19, 2017
    Memoir

    Growing Up As An Untouchable

    By Sujatha Gidla  July 18, 2017
    How to read in public

    Why Is It So Hard For a Woman to Read Alone in America?

    By Susan Harlan  July 14, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Recording My Audiobook Brought Me Closer to My Immigrant Mother

    By Michelle Kuo  July 10, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How I Accidentally Became a War Correspondent

    By Lynda Schuster  July 7, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Literature Helped My Father and Me Survive Life in a Cult

    By Rebecca Stott  July 6, 2017
    Personal Essay

    I Come From Generations of People Who Worry

    By Donal Ryan  July 6, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Race at the Race: Being Indian-American at the Indianapolis 500

    By Rajpreet Heir  July 5, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Maggie Shipstead on Being Alone (But Not Lonely) in Paris

    By Maggie Shipstead  July 3, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When I Worked as an Assistant to My Hero, Adrienne Rich

    By Victoria Redel  June 28, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A History of My Violence to the Ones I Love

    By Silas Dent Zobal  June 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    No Frills

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 22, 2017
    Personal Essay

    After Not Finishing a Book in 35 Years, How My Father Became a Reader

    By Mariya Karimjee  June 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Running Towards My Father

    By Devin Kelly  June 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A Letter to My Father, Long After He’s Gone

    By Gabe Stutman  June 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Joy and Preemptive Grief of Fatherhood

    By Quinton Skinner  June 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Secret, Violent History of My Childhood Home

    By Julia Fierro  June 12, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When All of Your Family Heirlooms are Stories

    By Gina Sorell  June 9, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Worst Ever First Day on the Job

    By Finn Murphy  June 8, 2017
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