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The Patterns, Routines, and Pervasive Fear of Daily Life in Prison

The Patterns, Routines, and Pervasive Fear of Daily Life in Prison

Keith Corbin on the Unspoken Codes of the California Penal System

By Keith Corbin and Kevin Alexander | August 25, 2022

I Really Didn’t Want to Write This Promotional Essay Tied to My Book Release

I Really Didn’t Want to Write This Promotional Essay Tied to My Book Release

Lauren Acampora on the Public Consumption of Art, and How Not To Let It Consume You

By Lauren Acampora | August 23, 2022

WATCH: Elizabeth Crane Talks to Leslie Jamison About Divorce, Transformation, and More

WATCH: Elizabeth Crane Talks to Leslie Jamison About Divorce, Transformation, and More

The Author of This Story Will Change in Conversation at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | August 23, 2022

A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

Rasheed Newson on Sexually Accommodating Spaces as Community Hubs, and the Moral Panics That Destroyed Them

By Rasheed Newson | August 23, 2022

What Five Years with a Predatory Vanity Press Taught Me About Art and Success

What Five Years with a Predatory Vanity Press Taught Me About Art and Success

Alexa T. Dodd on a Book Deal That Seemed Too Good to Be True

By Alexa T. Dodd | August 22, 2022

Kristine Langley Mahler on How Online Rabbit Holes Fuel Creativity

Kristine Langley Mahler on How Online Rabbit Holes Fuel Creativity

“The looking is the creeper behavior, but the processing of those digital finds can become the nonfiction writer’s justification.”

By Kristine Langley Mahler | August 22, 2022

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The Making of a Muse: When Edie Sedgwick Met Andy Warhol

By Alice Sedgwick Wohl | August 19, 2022

Finding Healing at Paris’s Shakespeare and Company

By Natasha Sizlo | August 19, 2022

The Lies That Make Up a Marriage

By Rebecca Woolf | August 19, 2022

The Books That Help Beth Macy Find Threads of Hope While Writing About Trauma

The Books That Help Beth Macy Find Threads of Hope While Writing About Trauma

A Reading List for Alleviating Panic in the Face of Secondary Trauma

By Beth Macy | August 19, 2022

A young Russian soldier has written a scathing account of Putin’s inept war.

A young Russian soldier has written a scathing account of Putin’s inept war.

By Jonny Diamond | August 18, 2022

13 Ways of Looking at a Family: Maud Newton on the Imagery of Ancestors (Including Her Own)

13 Ways of Looking at a Family: Maud Newton on the Imagery of Ancestors (Including Her Own)

Part Three in the “13 Ways of Looking” Series

By Maud Newton | August 18, 2022

Japanese American Incarceration for Children: Brandon Shimoda on Reading with His Daughter

Japanese American Incarceration for Children: Brandon Shimoda on Reading with His Daughter

“I did not grow up with children’s books about Japanese American incarceration. There were not many.”

By Brandon Shimoda | August 18, 2022

How White Parents Shirk Their Moral Responsibility to the Common Good Under the Cover of Responsible Parenting

How White Parents Shirk Their Moral Responsibility to the Common Good Under the Cover of Responsible Parenting

Courtney E. Martin on the Many Ways of Asking the School Question

By Courtney E. Martin | August 18, 2022

Dear Sally Albright: 40 is Only the Beginning

Dear Sally Albright: 40 is Only the Beginning

Miriam Parker on Late Blooming and When Harry Met Sally

By Miriam Parker | August 17, 2022

Sidik Fofana on Balancing Shyness with Being in the Public Eye

Sidik Fofana on Balancing Shyness with Being in the Public Eye

“I am a contradiction. I am a performer and a monk.”

By Sidik Fofana | August 17, 2022

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