• Memoir

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    Me and JT LeRoy: On Anonymity and Queer Art

    By Szilvia Molnar  September 15, 2016
    Excerpts

    Between Life and Death

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 14, 2016
    Biography

    On the Celibate Love Affair of Nora Ephron and Mike Nichols

    By Richard Cohen  September 12, 2016
    Excerpts

    Swimming in the Sink

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  September 8, 2016
    Conversations

    Lauren Collins Really Didn’t Want to Write a Memoir

    By Stephanie LaCava  September 8, 2016
    Essay

    When News of a Suicide Comes During Memoir Class

    By Jamie-Lee Josselyn  September 8, 2016
    Excerpts

    Slow Days, Fast Company

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 29, 2016
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    Reading D.H. Lawrence on a Remote Swedish Island

    By Fredrik Sjöberg  August 29, 2016
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    Treyf: My Life as an Unorthodox Outlaw

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 17, 2016
    Essay

    When Was My Mother No Longer My Mother?

    By Emma Geen  August 16, 2016
    Essay

    Vu Tran: The Uncertain Memories of a Four-Year-Old Refugee

    By Vu Tran  August 12, 2016
    Profile

    Blair Braverman is Obsessed with the Things That Scare Her Most

    By Gemma de Choisy  August 12, 2016
    Feature

    The Most Literary Book Ever Written About Bodybuilding

    By Nick Ripatrazone  August 9, 2016
    Feature

    The Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day I Woke Up As a Debut Author

    By Jade Sharma  August 4, 2016
    Excerpts

    I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 3, 2016
    Essay

    Édouard Louis: The Family is a Curse

    By Edouard Louis  August 3, 2016
    Essay

    When Donald Trump’s Assistant Cheated in My MFA Seminar

    By Marina Budhos  August 2, 2016
    Essay

    How to End a Memoir Without Getting Married

    By Leigh Stein  August 2, 2016
    Feature

    Obama, America, and the Legacy of James Alan McPherson

    By Whitney Terrell  August 1, 2016
    Essay

    Madeleine Dubus On Hearing Her Father’s Voice Again

    By Madeleine Dubus  July 29, 2016
    Feature

    Jay-Z and Morrissey, Masters of the Music Memoir

    By Edward White  July 27, 2016
    Memoir

    Remembering the Worst Book Signing Ever

    By Lori Jakiela  July 26, 2016
    Excerpts

    In A Dark Wood

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 20, 2016
    Essay

    My Mother, Monterey, and the Haunted Beauty of Aquariums

    By Lindsay Hatton  July 19, 2016
    Feature

    I Squatted James Baldwin’s House in Order to Save It

    By Shannon Cain  July 14, 2016
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