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How to Be Cool: On the Societal Expectations Placed on Black Boys vs. White Boys

How to Be Cool: On the Societal Expectations Placed on Black Boys vs. White Boys

Brian Broome Considers the One-Two Punch of Gender and Racial Identity

By Brian Broome | May 18, 2021

Lilly Dancyger on the Physical and Emotional Tolls of Writing Memoir

Lilly Dancyger on the Physical and Emotional Tolls of Writing Memoir

The Author of Negative Space Talks to Sari Botton

By The Virtual Book Channel | May 18, 2021

The Necessity (and Inadequacy) of Trans Self-Acceptance Narratives

The Necessity (and Inadequacy) of Trans Self-Acceptance Narratives

Isle McElroy on Torrey Peters, Veronica Esposito, and the Divide Between Being and Doing Trans

By Isle McElroy | May 18, 2021

Poetic Letters Across a Pandemic Distance

Poetic Letters Across a Pandemic Distance

From Emma Kushnirsky and Robin Messing of Girls Write Now

By Emma Kushnirsky and Robin Messing | May 17, 2021

Is Fabulism the New Sincerity?

Is Fabulism the New Sincerity?

Brenda Peynado Considers the Dishonesty of Irony

By Brenda Peynado | May 17, 2021

On the Many Forms Our Dissent Can Take

On the Many Forms Our Dissent Can Take

Jen Silverman Considers Anger as Power and Remembering Who You Are

By Jen Silverman | May 17, 2021

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How We Wrote a Joint Memoir Without Sabotaging Our Relationship

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Why Did I Wait So Long to Read Jane Austen?

By Joshua Raff | May 13, 2021

On the Care and Keeping of Mythological Apparitions

By Sean Flynn | May 13, 2021

Tayari Jones on <em>The Women of Brewster Place</em>, Nearly Forty Years Later

Tayari Jones on The Women of Brewster Place, Nearly Forty Years Later

Reconsidering a Watershed Moment
of Black Storytelling

By Tayari Jones | May 13, 2021

A Lifetime of Luminous Poetry: Nandana Dev Sen on Translating the Work of Her Mother, Nabaneeta

A Lifetime of Luminous Poetry: Nandana Dev Sen on Translating the Work of Her Mother, Nabaneeta

“She had a profound and primal need for poetry, not only as a way to cope, but as a way of forming herself.”

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Here are the winners of Publishing Triangle’s 33rd annual Triangle Awards.

Here are the winners of Publishing Triangle’s 33rd annual Triangle Awards.

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Following the Vita Sackville-West School of Gardening

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Marc Hamer on Growing Roses (and Aphids)

By Marc Hamer | May 12, 2021

What Will the Literature of Motherhood Look Like After COVID?

What Will the Literature of Motherhood Look Like After COVID?

Ashley Nelson Levy on Pandemic Parenting in America

By Ashley Nelson Levy | May 12, 2021

On Finally Finding a Home Where the Outsiders Are In

On Finally Finding a Home Where the Outsiders Are In

How Jessica Anya Blau’s Novel is an Ode to Anne Tyler, Baltimore, and the Spirit of the Oddball

By Jessica Anya Blau | May 12, 2021

How <em>Pretty in Pink</em> Star Andrew McCarthy Became an (Unlikely) Teen Heartthrob

How Pretty in Pink Star Andrew McCarthy Became an (Unlikely) Teen Heartthrob

The 80s Brat Pack Member on the Iconic Role that Changed His Career

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