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The Novels We Wrote When We Were 17: Adam Langer on High School Rumors and Storytelling

The Novels We Wrote When We Were 17: Adam Langer on High School Rumors and Storytelling

Or, How the Memories of the Past Haunt the Stories of the Present

By Adam Langer | August 4, 2022

Lynne Tillman on Watching a Mother’s Final Days

Lynne Tillman on Watching a Mother’s Final Days

“Dying is inevitable, but estranged from anything you know.”

By Lynne Tillman | August 3, 2022

Meet-Cute: Susan Coll on Falling In Love with (and at) a Bookstore

Meet-Cute: Susan Coll on Falling In Love with (and at) a Bookstore

And They All Lived Happily Ever After

By Susan Coll | August 3, 2022

If You Want to Ruin Bookstores for Yourself, Become a Writer

If You Want to Ruin Bookstores for Yourself, Become a Writer

Jana Casale on Browsing Bookstores Before AND AFTER Debuting as a Novelist

By Jana Casale | August 3, 2022

Michelle Tea on Crossing the Threshold from Ambivalence to Wanting a Baby

Michelle Tea on Crossing the Threshold from Ambivalence to Wanting a Baby

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

By Thresholds | August 3, 2022

Lynne Tillman on the Awe-Inducing Experience of Witnessing Her Mother Die

Lynne Tillman on the Awe-Inducing Experience of Witnessing Her Mother Die

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | August 3, 2022

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Michelle Tea on Undertaking the Wild Art Project of Motherhood

By Michelle Tea | August 2, 2022

Visiting Mariah Carey’s Cat’s Grave: Reflections on Disenfranchised Grief

By E.B. Bartels | August 2, 2022

Anxiety and Responsibility: What Stories Can Come From Our Current Moment?

By Clare Pollard | August 2, 2022

The Pain-Writing-Money Trifecta: On Nora Ephron and Grief as Copy

The Pain-Writing-Money Trifecta: On Nora Ephron and Grief as Copy

Ella Risbridger Considers Art, Life, and Truth

By Ella Risbridger | August 1, 2022

A Gathering of Stones: Aimee Bender on the Earth’s Best Secret-Keepers

A Gathering of Stones: Aimee Bender on the Earth’s Best Secret-Keepers

“I felt a kinship with the stones.”

By Aimee Bender | August 1, 2022

I Once Wrote—and Spoke, and Thought—in Russian... No More

I Once Wrote—and Spoke, and Thought—in Russian... No More

Volodymyr Rafeenko on Unlearning His Mother Tongue

By Volodymyr Rafeenko | July 29, 2022

“An Open Heart, Armor Down.” Maud Newton and Ann Leary in Conversation

“An Open Heart, Armor Down.” Maud Newton and Ann Leary in Conversation

On Motivation, Family Histories, and Sleuthing Talents

By Literary Hub | July 29, 2022

The Childfree Effigy: On <em>Network</em>’s Diana and the Tropes That Betray Women

The Childfree Effigy: On Network’s Diana and the Tropes That Betray Women

“The world must think women without children, like me, sob through breakfast, bed three men after lunch, or pulverize lives for fun.”

By Felice Arenas | July 29, 2022

Luz Aguirre on Living Inside the Panopticon as an Undocumented American

Luz Aguirre on Living Inside the Panopticon as an Undocumented American

“We grow up in this country, immersed in this culture, without the tools necessary to fulfill unattainable ideas of prosperity.”

By Luz Aguirre | July 29, 2022

Remembering Daphne Athas: Writer, Reader, Teacher, Mentor, Adventurer, Friend

Remembering Daphne Athas: Writer, Reader, Teacher, Mentor, Adventurer, Friend

Alane Salierno Mason, Randall Kenan, Miranda Cambanis and More on a Great Life Lived

By Literary Hub | July 28, 2022

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