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From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of <br>Daily Life, c. 1979

From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
Daily Life, c. 1979

“Memo: do not drink coffee. It engenders baseless optimism about
my powers of creation.”

By Freeman's | December 9, 2019

Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop

Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop

The Czech Writer Remembers What It Was to
Fall in Love with Literature

By Bohumil Hrabal | December 6, 2019

How Journalism Made a <br>Poet Out of Me

How Journalism Made a
Poet Out of Me

Gillian Conoley on Objectivity, Reportage, and Truth

By Gillian Conoley | December 6, 2019

Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took<br> 30 Years to Write

Reading the Unpublished Novel My Mother Took
30 Years to Write

Caroline Scott on Realizing an Unlikely Family Dream

By Caroline Scott | December 5, 2019

Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors

Lore Segal: A (Complicated) Love Letter to Editors

On Syntax, Rewrites, Second-Guesses, and Grace

By Lore Segal | December 2, 2019

Maaza Mengiste on Women Pushing to the Front Lines of Conflict

Maaza Mengiste on Women Pushing to the Front Lines of Conflict

The Shadow King Author
on Reading Women

By Reading Women | November 27, 2019

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Of Bohumil Hrabal's Six Loves, Guess How Many Were Cats?

By Bohumil Hrabal | November 26, 2019

Self-Storage:
Reading John Cage in Reykjavik

By J. Mae Barizo | November 25, 2019

Meditations on a Sunday Morning While Driving on Sunset Boulevard

By Sam Farahmand | November 25, 2019

The Travel Diaries of Allen Ginsberg in South America

The Travel Diaries of Allen Ginsberg in South America

“I tapped my cane against the rails to find my way thru Death.”

By Allen Ginsberg | November 22, 2019

A Family Tree Forever Changed By Disaster

A Family Tree Forever Changed By Disaster

Sarah Abrevaya Stein on the Great Fire of Salonica

By Sarah Abrevaya Stein | November 22, 2019

Ordinary Girls: Jaquira Díaz on Growing Up in Miami Beach

Ordinary Girls: Jaquira Díaz on Growing Up in Miami Beach

“We wanted to be seen, finally, to exist in the lives we’d mapped out for ourselves.”

By Jaquira Díaz | November 20, 2019

What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

Jennifer S. Cheng on Writing about the Moon Goddess Chang'E

By Jennifer S. Cheng | November 20, 2019

In a Backyard in Texas, Considering the Universe<br> in an Oak Tree

In a Backyard in Texas, Considering the Universe
in an Oak Tree

Jung Young Moon on the Small Mythologies of Place

By Jung Young Moon | November 20, 2019

Announcing the Shortlist for Reading Women's Fiction Award

Announcing the Shortlist for Reading Women's Fiction Award

Jacqueline Woodson, Valeria Luiselli, Miriam Toews, and More

By Reading Women | November 20, 2019

The Education of a Civil Rights Hero

The Education of a Civil Rights Hero

Dovey Johnson Roundtree on Life at Spelman College

By Dovey Johnson Roundtree and Katie McCabe | November 19, 2019

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