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Why Middle-Aged Men Have Trouble Sustaining Friendships

Why Middle-Aged Men Have Trouble Sustaining Friendships

Billy Baker on Loneliness and Finding Connection

By Billy Baker | January 28, 2021

Voices of the People: On Folk Music as a Living Art Form

Voices of the People: On Folk Music as a Living Art Form

Ellen Harper Remembers Her Mother and the Gift of Making Music 

By Ellen Harper | January 27, 2021

22 Books That Helped Me Write the Story of My Transition

22 Books That Helped Me Write the Story of My Transition

P. Carl on Inspiration, Imagination, and Identity

By P. Carl | January 26, 2021

How a Mother Leaves

How a Mother Leaves

Danielle Geller Tells the Story of a Life by What Was Left Behind

By Danielle Geller | January 26, 2021

On Heartbreak, Absence, and Falling in Love with <em>The Great Gatsby</em>

On Heartbreak, Absence, and Falling in Love with The Great Gatsby

David Stuart MacLean Charts the Path to His Gatsby-Inspired Novel

By David Stuart MacLean | January 21, 2021

André Aciman: On Yearning for the Not-Yet and What Could Have Been

André Aciman: On Yearning for the Not-Yet and What Could Have Been

"The irrealis mood disrupts all verbal tenses, moods, and aspects."

By André Aciman | January 21, 2021

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I Watched a Baby Being Born So I Could Write My Book

By Janice P. Nimura | January 20, 2021

Resisting the Badge of ‘Resilience’ in the Wake of a Devastating Loss

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Remembering Deborah Orr with a Reading of Her Memoir, Motherwell

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By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | January 20, 2021

Conflagration and Catastrophe: On Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Doom of COVID-19

Conflagration and Catastrophe: On Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Doom of COVID-19

Daniel Allen Cox: "Symbolism allows us to avoid thinking about the thing itself."

By Daniel Allen Cox | January 19, 2021

Living That Van Life, Before It <br>Was a Hashtag

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Amanda Mei Kim on Her Itinerant California Childhood

By Amanda Mei Kim | January 15, 2021

Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

Kim Echlin on Morality, Mythology, and the Double Life of Totalitarianism

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

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

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In Favor of Speed:<br> Write Fast, Fix Later

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On Putting the Most Vulnerable Parts of Yourself on the Page

On Putting the Most Vulnerable Parts of Yourself on the Page

Justine Cowan Considers the Anxieties of Publishing a Memoir

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