• Memoir

    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
    Excerpts

    Reading D.H. Lawrence on a Remote Swedish Island

    By Fredrik Sjöberg  August 29, 2016
    Excerpts

    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
    Excerpts

    The Drone Eats With Me

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 8, 2016
    Essay

    Bob Shacochis: How Surfing Lead Me to Writing

    By Bob Shacochis  July 8, 2016
    Excerpts

    Dating Tips for the Unemployed

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 1, 2016
    Feature

    How Clay Byars Battled Paralysis to Finish His Memoir

    By Alice Cary  July 1, 2016
    Essay

    An Outlier in Ogden: Judith Freeman on Growing Up Mormon

    By Judith Freeman  June 23, 2016
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