• Memoir

    Personal Essay

    Surviving the Death of My Son, One Page at a Time

    By Mark Lane  April 6, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Stevie Nicks and Elizabeth Bishop Helped Me Through Grief and Loss

    By Brandon Taylor  April 5, 2017
    Personal Essay

    My Improbable, Irrational Mario Vargas Llosa Story

    By Juan Gabriel Vásquez  April 4, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Leaving the Village: Xiaolu Guo on a Traumatic Uprooting

    By Xiaolu Guo  March 28, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Return by Hisham Matar

    By Literary Hub  March 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole

    By Literary Hub  March 24, 2017
    In Memoriam

    How to Eat a Really Big Lunch with Jim Harrison

    By Peter Nowogrodzki  March 24, 2017
    Excerpts

    Unlearnable Lessons on My Father’s Deathbed

    By Marina Benjamin  March 21, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Wild, Weird Criminal Side of Florida

    By Dwyer Murphy  March 20, 2017
    Excerpts

    Writing on an Island at the End of the World

    By Nell Stevens  March 17, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When Your New York Apartment Has a Secret Literary Past

    By Anna Pitoniak  March 13, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When My Father Wasn’t Driving Trucks, He Was Reading

    By K. E. Semmel  March 10, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Joshua Mohr: The Time I Robbed a Liquor Store

    By Joshua Mohr  March 10, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Finding a Room of One’s Own on the Mexico City Metro

    By Madeleine Wattenbarger  March 8, 2017
    Personal Essay

    How Postcards From My Mother Helped Me Survive Childhood

    By Rowan Hisayo Buchanan  March 3, 2017
    Excerpts

    Dadland

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 3, 2017
    Profile

    Kyoko Mori on Writing Through Deep Trauma

    By Melanie Brooks  March 2, 2017
    Excerpts

    A Brief Stop On the Road From Auschwitz

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 1, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Getting Lost Before the Internet

    By Cara Hoffman  February 21, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Writing to Survive: A Father on the Death of His Young Son

    By Stéphane Gerson  February 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    Instrumental

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 15, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Time I Blasted My Father’s Ashes Into the Sky

    By Kris D’Agostino  February 13, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When Your Hometown is Crammed With Aspiring Writers

    By Kathleen Donohoe  February 10, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Confronting Death with an 8-Year-Old through Harry Potter

    By Kevin Wilson  February 8, 2017
    Personal Essay

    What Remains When Your First Language Fades Away

    By Alexandra Burt  February 7, 2017
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