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Road to Avonlea: Amanda Parrish Morgan on The Transportive Intimacy of Reading and Long Drives

Road to Avonlea: Amanda Parrish Morgan on The Transportive Intimacy of Reading and Long Drives

"The car, the book, the trip—all means of getting somewhere unknown together."

By Amanda Parrish Morgan | October 13, 2023

Nobel Prize Laureate Katalin Karikó on Her Hungarian Childhood

Nobel Prize Laureate Katalin Karikó on Her Hungarian Childhood

“I understand now that this local ‘soap cooker lady’ was the first biochemist I ever met.”

By Katalin Karikó | October 12, 2023

We All Touch Ourselves: Fancy Feast on Beauty, Pleasure and Sexual Self-Actualization

We All Touch Ourselves: Fancy Feast on Beauty, Pleasure and Sexual Self-Actualization

"I want to offer comfort and be comforted by the company."

By Fancy Feast | October 12, 2023

How to Write a Memoir When You're Sick With Cancer

How to Write a Memoir When You're Sick With Cancer

Dan O'Brien on Cancer and Honesty

By Dan O'Brien | October 11, 2023

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

"In order to tell the truth out loud, on the page, I needed to learn to be compassionate with myself"

By Rebecca Clarren | October 11, 2023

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

Alexandra Dos Santos on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

By Alexandra Dos Santos | October 11, 2023

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"Why does one artist fall in love with another’s art?"

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Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

"At the very moment that you take on the greatest act of caring, you discover how powerless you are."

By Molly Lynch | September 25, 2023

All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee

All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee

"Men of Exclusion held truth close, sailing like the wind into a port of safety."

By Fae Myenne Ng | September 21, 2023

Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

"Faith gave the women around me strengths and simultaneous burdens."

By Halle Hill | September 21, 2023

The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

"They show a broader human urge to understand the bodies we live in, especially when they falter."

By Kate Roberts | September 19, 2023

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