• Memoir

    Personal Essay

    Rebecca Solnit on a Childhood of Reading and Wandering

    By Rebecca Solnit  July 19, 2017
    Memoir

    Growing Up As An Untouchable

    By Sujatha Gidla  July 18, 2017
    How to read in public

    Why Is It So Hard For a Woman to Read Alone in America?

    By Susan Harlan  July 14, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Recording My Audiobook Brought Me Closer to My Immigrant Mother

    By Michelle Kuo  July 10, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How I Accidentally Became a War Correspondent

    By Lynda Schuster  July 7, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Literature Helped My Father and Me Survive Life in a Cult

    By Rebecca Stott  July 6, 2017
    Personal Essay

    I Come From Generations of People Who Worry

    By Donal Ryan  July 6, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Race at the Race: Being Indian-American at the Indianapolis 500

    By Rajpreet Heir  July 5, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Maggie Shipstead on Being Alone (But Not Lonely) in Paris

    By Maggie Shipstead  July 3, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When I Worked as an Assistant to My Hero, Adrienne Rich

    By Victoria Redel  June 28, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A History of My Violence to the Ones I Love

    By Silas Dent Zobal  June 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    No Frills

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 22, 2017
    Personal Essay

    After Not Finishing a Book in 35 Years, How My Father Became a Reader

    By Mariya Karimjee  June 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Running Towards My Father

    By Devin Kelly  June 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    A Letter to My Father, Long After He’s Gone

    By Gabe Stutman  June 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Joy and Preemptive Grief of Fatherhood

    By Quinton Skinner  June 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Secret, Violent History of My Childhood Home

    By Julia Fierro  June 12, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When All of Your Family Heirlooms are Stories

    By Gina Sorell  June 9, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Worst Ever First Day on the Job

    By Finn Murphy  June 8, 2017
    Excerpts

    Everything Will Be Perfect if We Move to the Western Wilderness

    By Bella Pollen  June 6, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Being Gay vs. Being Southern: A False Choice

    By Brandon Taylor  June 6, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Confronting Gay Conversion Therapy Through Fiction

    By Nick White  June 5, 2017
    Personal Essay

    There is Always War Somewhere: Memories of a WWII Childhood

    By Lore Segal  May 31, 2017
    Deep Dive

    Sex, Memoir, and the Women of the Beat Generation

    By Danielle Dumaine  May 30, 2017
    Personal Essay

    I Left the Worst Day of My Life Out of My Memoir

    By Marcia Butler  May 26, 2017
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