• Memoir

    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
    Excerpts

    The Men in My Life

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 3, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Frederic Tuten Remembers Harry Mathews

    By Frederic Tuten  February 3, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Brand New Catastrophe

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 2, 2017
    What to Read

    11 Memoirs by 20th-Century American Radicals

    By Dwyer Murphy  January 30, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Returning Home to the Ghosts of Budapest

    By Joseph Kertes  January 27, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Weight of My Father’s Poems

    By Emily Ruskovich  January 20, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Mary Karr: Stop Asking Me About David Foster Wallace, Thanks

    By Emily Temple  January 18, 2017
    Excerpts

    Letters to a Young Muslim

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 5, 2017
    Excerpts

    Making Christmas Custard with Kathy Acker

    By Jeanette Winterson  December 23, 2016
    Excerpts

    Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 16, 2016
    Excerpts

    Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 15, 2016
    Personal Essay

    I Hate My Dogs (I Love My Dogs)

    By Claire Messud  December 14, 2016
    Personal Essay

    The Two Books That Saved My Young Life

    By Keah Brown  December 8, 2016
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