How To Write About Your Mother

How To Write About Your Mother

Terry McDonell: “I did not set out to write about Irma.”

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How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

Jennifer Lunden on Alice James, Descartes' Destructive Influence on Medicine, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and More

By Jennifer Lunden | May 10, 2023

Emma Nadler on How Good and Bad Luck Are Inseparably Connected

Emma Nadler on How Good and Bad Luck Are Inseparably Connected

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 10, 2023

Mariana Alessandri on How the Natural Human Condition is to Live in Darkness, Anger, and Pain

Mariana Alessandri on How the Natural Human Condition is to Live in Darkness, Anger, and Pain

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | May 10, 2023

Stripping Back the Mother-Daughter Relationship... At <em>Magic Mike Live</em> in Vegas

Stripping Back the Mother-Daughter Relationship... At Magic Mike Live in Vegas

Connie Wang and Her Mother Have Fun and Get Loose

By Connie Wang | May 9, 2023

Kelly McMasters on Starting a Bookstore to Save Her Marriage

Kelly McMasters on Starting a Bookstore to Save Her Marriage

“And so, I kept pumping the bellows, trying to keep the fire between us burning.”

By Kelly McMasters | May 9, 2023

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Janet Steen on Navigating the Loss of Her Brother

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Pauline Harmange on the Saving Grace of Sharing Personal Stories

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Aaron Hamburger on Trying to Solve a Family Mystery Through Fiction

Aaron Hamburger on Trying to Solve a Family Mystery Through Fiction

“Writing my novel was a way to connect to this younger version of my grandmother.”

By Aaron Hamburger | May 4, 2023

On Kind of Telling the Truth: Why Hannah Pittard Switched to Memoir

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