• Memoir

    Reading Lists

    How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

    By Michael Leviton  January 15, 2021
    Writing Advice

    In Favor of Speed:
    Write Fast, Fix Later

    By Mateo Askaripour  January 14, 2021
    On Memoir

    On Putting the Most Vulnerable Parts of Yourself on the Page

    By Justine Cowan  January 14, 2021
    Reported Memoirs

    Trouble for Your Thoughts: On Reported Creative Nonfiction

    By Kenneth R. Rosen  January 13, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

    By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  January 13, 2021
    On Race

    On Navigating the Intricacies of Race and the Violence of Antiblackness in America

    By Nadia Owusu  January 12, 2021
    Personal History

    Am I Argentine? On Identity, Tradition and Finding Ties to One’s Homeland

    By Daniel Loedel  January 12, 2021
    Storybound

    Paul Lisicky Performs an Excerpt from His Memoir Later

    By Storybound   January 12, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Imagining Gatsby
    Before Gatsby

    By Michael Farris Smith  January 11, 2021
    Trauma

    The Color Purple and the Language of Healing from Trauma

    By Salamishah Tillet  January 11, 2021
    Community

    The Deep Connection of West Virginia’s Indian Community

    By Neema Avashia  January 8, 2021
    Singing

    What It’s Like to Learn to Sing in Your Fifties

    By Tom Vanderbilt  January 8, 2021
    Exercise

    Exercise is Good. But How Do We Make More Fun?

    By Daniel Lieberman  January 7, 2021
    Thresholds

    Announcing Season 3 of the Thresholds Podcast

    By Thresholds   January 7, 2021
    Drafts

    What Really Goes On in a Writer’s Notebook?

    By Danielle McLaughlin  January 6, 2021
    On Writing

    People Still Ask: How Do Writers Get Their Ideas?

    By Lore Segal  January 6, 2021
    Animals

    What It’s Like to Teach a
    Magpie How to Fly

    By Charlie Gilmour  January 5, 2021
    Marriage

    A Season to Set the House on Fire: On the End of a Marriage

    By Elaine Bleakney  January 5, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Kiese Laymon: Precious Writers Have Omission, Not Subtext

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 28, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Natasha Trethewey on Public Grief in Poetry and Memoir

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 23, 2020
    Aging

    Etel Adnan Contemplates Aging Amid the California Wildfires

    By Etel Adnan  December 23, 2020
    Family Histories

    Finding My Father Through His Relationship with Judaism

    By Deborah Tannen  December 22, 2020
    The West

    On the Solstice: Deep Winter Dreams of the Spring to Come

    By Rick Bass  December 21, 2020
    Poetry

    Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and
    Chicano Poetry

    By Lorna Dee Cervantes  December 21, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Darkness Before Dawn: Tales of a Pandemic Reopening

    By Andrés Felipe Solano  December 18, 2020
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