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How to Tell Your Family That You're Writing a Memoir

How to Tell Your Family That You're Writing a Memoir

"My Misshapen Skateboarding Book Had Become a Book About, Well, Us"

By Neal Thompson | May 14, 2018

How My Father's Strike Nearly Broke Our Town in Two

How My Father's Strike Nearly Broke Our Town in Two

Kerri Arsenault on an Early Lesson in Labor and Loyalty

By Kerri Arsenault | May 10, 2018

What Snow White and the Evil Queen Taught Me About Desire

What Snow White and the Evil Queen Taught Me About Desire

"Fairy Tales Don’t Tell Children to Stop Wanting—Only to Be Careful"

By Julia Fine | May 8, 2018

Life and Death in the Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit

Life and Death in the Neonatal Intensive-Care Unit

On the Disciplined Nurses Caring for Fragile, Premature Babies

By Christie Watson | May 8, 2018

Francesca Lia Block is a Lot More than <em>Weetzie Bat</em>

Francesca Lia Block is a Lot More than Weetzie Bat

The Beloved Writer on Defying Expectations and Trying New Things

By Zan Romanoff | May 7, 2018

Against Clarity (or In Praise of Youthful Wisdom)

Against Clarity (or In Praise of Youthful Wisdom)

Steven Church: You Don't Have to Be Old to Write a Memoir

By Steven Church | May 1, 2018

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The Night I Slept in James Thurber's Bed

By Annabelle Gurwitch | May 1, 2018

Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid's Tale

By Margaret Atwood | April 25, 2018

Undercover at the Miss Ex-Yugoslavia Pageant

By Sofija Stefanovic | April 17, 2018

An Open Letter to My Dog: I Couldn't Have Written This Without You

An Open Letter to My Dog: I Couldn't Have Written This Without You

Cinelle Barnes on How She Pushed Through a Trauma Memoir

By Cinelle Barnes | April 17, 2018

 We’ll Always Have Paris: My Time in Texas with Sam Shepard's Notebooks

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On a Big Sky Road Trip Into the Heart of America

By Madelaine Lucas | April 12, 2018

Music and My Father

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Gabrielle Bellot on Growing Up Between the Silence and the Sound

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 10, 2018

On Blood, Birth, and the Talismanic Power of Red Lipstick

On Blood, Birth, and the Talismanic Power of Red Lipstick

Jessica Friedmann Navigates the Difficult Path to Motherhood

By Jessica Friedmann | April 10, 2018

Gay, Muslim, Refugee: On Making a Life in Trump's America

Gay, Muslim, Refugee: On Making a Life in Trump's America

Aleksandar Hemon Tells the Story of Kemalemir Frashto

By Aleksandar Hemon | April 9, 2018

Samantha Irby: Why I'd Rather Live Alone

Samantha Irby: Why I'd Rather Live Alone

I Have Neither the Time nor Patience to Fix My Gross Shit

By Samantha Irby | April 5, 2018

In the Endless Sameness of Prison, Writing Kept Me Human

In the Endless Sameness of Prison, Writing Kept Me Human

"Paper, Any Paper, is About the Most Precious Article for a Political Prisoner"

By Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | March 28, 2018

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