Making Christmas Custard with Kathy Acker

Making Christmas Custard with Kathy Acker

Jeanette Winterson on Sharing Traditions with a Very Nontraditional Friend

By Jeanette Winterson | December 23, 2016

Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos

Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos

Clancy Sigal

By Lit Hub Excerpts | December 16, 2016

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

Sarah Manguso

By Lit Hub Excerpts | December 15, 2016

I Hate My Dogs (I Love My Dogs)

I Hate My Dogs (I Love My Dogs)

Claire Messud Reflects on Life with Four-Footed Family Members

By Claire Messud | December 14, 2016

The Two Books That Saved My Young Life

The Two Books That Saved My Young Life

Keah Brown on Sarah Dessen, Toni Morrison, and Coming Back from the Brink

By Keah Brown | December 8, 2016

Trevor Noah on Growing Up in South Africa Under Apartheid

Trevor Noah on Growing Up in South Africa Under Apartheid

"Where most children are proof of their parents’ love, I was the proof of their criminality."

By Trevor Noah | December 2, 2016

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Fascism and Its Echoes, and the Othering of the Mentally Ill

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Jane Bernstein on Finding the Human Detail in a Memoir of War

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Ghost Songs

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Postcards to a Younger, Much Better Novelist

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Derek Palacio Shares Early Correspondence with his wife, Claire Vaye Watkins

By Derek Palacio | October 17, 2016

There's Still No Word for 'Memoir' in German Publishing

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How I Came to Love Bob Dylan

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