• Memoir

    Youth

    McKenzie Wark Writes a Letter to Her Younger Self

    By McKenzie Wark  October 9, 2023
    Creativity

    A Crisis of Faith: Pauls Toutonghi on Finding Purpose in Creativity

    By Pauls Toutonghi  October 5, 2023
    Audiobook Narration

    On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

    By Freda Love Smith  October 4, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Nathan Hill on the Biggest Surprise of His Literary Career

    By The Literary Life  September 29, 2023
    Jane Austen

    Confessions of a Chronically Online Janeite

    By Rhonda Watts  September 28, 2023
    Art

    Searching For Agnes Martin

    By Brian Teare  September 28, 2023
    Motherhood

    Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

    By Molly Lynch  September 25, 2023
    Shipwrecks

    All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee

    By Fae Myenne Ng  September 21, 2023
    Spirituality

    Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

    By Halle Hill  September 21, 2023
    Chronic Illness

    The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

    By Kate Roberts  September 19, 2023
    Adaptations

    “Your Meals In Life Are Numbered:” On Trying (and Failing) in Hollywood

    By Terrell Tannen  September 15, 2023
    Coming out

    James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

    By James Frankie Thomas  September 13, 2023
    Graphic Memoir

    Navied Mahdavian on Confronting Environmental Degredation in the American West

    By Navied Mahdavian  September 11, 2023
    Why I Write

    James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes

    By James Ellroy  September 7, 2023
    Chefs

    Brendan Shay Basham on the Similarities Between the Chef Life and the Writing Life

    By Brendan Shay Basham  September 7, 2023
    Money Matters

    “Tolstoy did not neglect to describe the outhouses”: Yiyun Li on the Material Concerns of Characters and Writers

    By Yiyun Li  September 6, 2023
    Mother-Writers

    What Does It Mean to Write after Having Children?

    By Lightsey Darst  August 31, 2023
    Incarcerated Writers

    Good Writing in a Bad Place: How One Incarcerated Writer Feeds His Craft

    By Robert Lee Williams  August 28, 2023
    Activism

    How the Vietnam War Accelerated Generational Divides in America

    By Drew Gilpin Faust  August 24, 2023
    Censorship

    Dotted Lines: On Writing and Humiliation Under Iranian Censorship

    By Moeen Farrokhi  August 24, 2023
    Personal History

    Letting a Psychic Into the Space Between Me and My Mother

    By Kyo Maclear  August 23, 2023
    Publishing

    The Long, Winding, Booby-Trapped, and Occasionally Rewarding Road to Publication

    By Lou Mathews  August 23, 2023
    Money Matters

    Unspendable Currency: Edgar Kunz on Making Ends Meet As a Poet

    By Edgar Kunz  August 22, 2023
    On Grief

    Accounting for the Unaccountable: Daniel Johnson on Writing about His Friend, James Foley

    By Daniel Brock Johnson  August 22, 2023
    On Race

    The Battle to Fulfill the Racial Promise of Shaker Heights

    By Laura Meckler  August 22, 2023
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