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Never Meet Your (Anti-)Heroes: My Correspondence with Bill Knott

Never Meet Your (Anti-)Heroes: My Correspondence with Bill Knott

Jeff Alessandrelli Remembers the Notoriously Prickly DIY Poet

By Jeff Alessandrelli | August 1, 2017

How Writing Let Me Take Control of My Own Story

How Writing Let Me Take Control of My Own Story

On the Joy and Struggle of Creation

By Jennie Melamed | July 28, 2017

How the Witchcraft of Clarice Lispector Saved My Life

How the Witchcraft of Clarice Lispector Saved My Life

Veronica Esposito on the Books That Come Along to Rescue Us

By Veronica Esposito | July 25, 2017

Mothers Who Leave Their Children

Mothers Who Leave Their Children

Melissa Chadburn on the Pain of Motherless Nights

By Melissa Chadburn | July 24, 2017

A First-Hand Account of Severe Autism

A First-Hand Account of Severe Autism

What It's Like to Not Be Able to Thank Your Mom on Mother's Day

By Naoki Higashida | July 20, 2017

Rebecca Solnit on a Childhood of Reading and Wandering

Rebecca Solnit on a Childhood of Reading and Wandering

In Praise of Libraries and the Forests That Surround Them

By Rebecca Solnit | July 19, 2017

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Growing Up As An Untouchable

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

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Recording My Audiobook Brought Me Closer to My Immigrant Mother

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By Lynda Schuster | July 7, 2017

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

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

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I Come From Generations of People Who Worry

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The One Time Donal Ryan Stopped Worrying, He Got Worried

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

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

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

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A History of My Violence to the Ones I Love

A History of My Violence to the Ones I Love

Silas Dent Zobal on Learning to Hit and Hitting Others

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