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22 Books That Helped Me Write the Story of My Transition

22 Books That Helped Me Write the Story of My Transition

P. Carl on Inspiration, Imagination, and Identity

By P. Carl | January 26, 2021

How a Mother Leaves

How a Mother Leaves

Danielle Geller Tells the Story of a Life by What Was Left Behind

By Danielle Geller | January 26, 2021

On Heartbreak, Absence, and Falling in Love with <em>The Great Gatsby</em>

On Heartbreak, Absence, and Falling in Love with The Great Gatsby

David Stuart MacLean Charts the Path to His Gatsby-Inspired Novel

By David Stuart MacLean | January 21, 2021

André Aciman: On Yearning for the Not-Yet and What Could Have Been

André Aciman: On Yearning for the Not-Yet and What Could Have Been

"The irrealis mood disrupts all verbal tenses, moods, and aspects."

By André Aciman | January 21, 2021

I Watched a Baby Being Born So I Could Write My Book

I Watched a Baby Being Born So I Could Write My Book

Janice P. Nimura on Her Research Process for The Doctors Blackwell

By Janice P. Nimura | January 20, 2021

Resisting the Badge of ‘Resilience’ in the Wake of a Devastating Loss

Resisting the Badge of ‘Resilience’ in the Wake of a Devastating Loss

Emily Rapp Black Considers a Ubiquitous—and Inexact—Description

By Emily Rapp Black | January 20, 2021

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Writing Through the Silences of a Lost Family History

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Remembering Deborah Orr with a Reading of Her Memoir, Motherwell

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Amanda Mei Kim on Her Itinerant California Childhood

By Amanda Mei Kim | January 15, 2021

Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Kim Echlin on Morality, Mythology, and the Double Life of Totalitarianism

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How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

Michael Leviton Recommends Richard Wright,
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Mateo Askaripour Offers a Method of Getting the Work Done

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On Putting the Most Vulnerable Parts of Yourself on the Page

On Putting the Most Vulnerable Parts of Yourself on the Page

Justine Cowan Considers the Anxieties of Publishing a Memoir

By Justine Cowan | January 14, 2021

Trouble for Your Thoughts: On Reported Creative Nonfiction

Trouble for Your Thoughts: On Reported Creative Nonfiction

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On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

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