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<em>Black Boy</em> and Me: How Richard Wright Inspired Omer Aziz

Black Boy and Me: How Richard Wright Inspired Omer Aziz

"I will always look in my rearview reverentially, owing something deep in my heart to Richard."

By Omer Aziz | August 7, 2023

On Being a Writer and a Mother to Children Who Don't Love to Read

On Being a Writer and a Mother to Children Who Don't Love to Read

Aimie K. Runyan on Instilling a Lifelong Love of Reading In Her Children... on Their Terms

By Aimie K. Runyan | August 4, 2023

Campbell McGrath on Reading Poetry Aloud

Campbell McGrath on Reading Poetry Aloud

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | August 4, 2023

Julie Schumacher on Thirty Years of Correspondence With Her Late Friend, Melissa Bank

Julie Schumacher on Thirty Years of Correspondence With Her Late Friend, Melissa Bank

"If I were writing to her now, which I suppose I am, I would tell her that I will remember her."

By Julie Schumacher | August 2, 2023

Writing a Novel to Encounter Other Versions of Myself

Writing a Novel to Encounter Other Versions of Myself

Rebecca Sacks on Imagining the Roads Her Life Might Have Taken

By Bee Sacks | August 1, 2023

How I Became a Modern Bootlegger

How I Became a Modern Bootlegger

“Even after 25 years in journalism, I never knew humanity the way I did working at a strip club and moving product.”

By John Koopman | July 27, 2023

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Mihret Sibhat on the Stories Our Names Tell

By Mihret Sibhat | July 26, 2023

Jonathan Galassi Remembers His Friend, the Great Robert Gottlieb

By Jonathan Galassi | July 25, 2023

The Burden of Truth: Fictionalizing My Father’s Years at a Federal Leprosy Treatment Center

By Wendy Chin-Tanner | July 25, 2023

Wang Xiaobo on the Limitless Mind of Italo Calvino

Wang Xiaobo on the Limitless Mind of Italo Calvino

“Literature has infinite potential. What could be wrong with that?”

By Wang Xiaobo | July 25, 2023

On Patricia Highsmith and the Horror—and Revelation—of Obsession

On Patricia Highsmith and the Horror—and Revelation—of Obsession

Hannah Meyer Considers the Power of Destructive Desire
in Fiction and Life

By Hannah Meyer | July 24, 2023

Haunted by the Question: What It Means To “Become” a Writer

Haunted by the Question: What It Means To “Become” a Writer

Efrén Ordóñez Garza on Writing as Practice, Lifestyle, and Identity

By Efrén Ordóñez Garza | July 24, 2023

On Grief, Pizza, and the Power of Food to Evoke Memory

On Grief, Pizza, and the Power of Food to Evoke Memory

Adam Dalva Remembers His Brother

By Adam Dalva | July 24, 2023

Nishanth Injam on Leaving India, the Misery of Tech Work and the Subversive Nature of Memories

Nishanth Injam on Leaving India, the Misery of Tech Work and the Subversive Nature of Memories

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | July 20, 2023

Lupine Cryptids, Tornado Alleys, and Sulfuric Demons: Lillian Stone on Her Complicated Relationship With Her Ozark Roots

Lupine Cryptids, Tornado Alleys, and Sulfuric Demons: Lillian Stone on Her Complicated Relationship With Her Ozark Roots

“I felt like a werewolf—hiding from prying eyes, not wanting anyone to see me transform.”

By Lillian Stone | July 19, 2023

Stranger Than Fiction: When Your Life Starts to Resemble Your Novel

Stranger Than Fiction: When Your Life Starts to Resemble Your Novel

Sandra A. Miller on Writing about True Events... and Living Fictional Ones

By Sandra A. Miller | July 13, 2023

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