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Chance Encounters and Intimate Exchanges With Literary Icons

Chance Encounters and Intimate Exchanges With Literary Icons

Jonas Mekas on Stealing Anaïs Nin's Cookies and Receiving Poems from Allen Ginsberg

By Jonas Mekas | October 6, 2017

To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

For Freeman's, Garnette Cadogan on a Childhood Hiding Behind Fictions

By Garnette Cadogan | October 5, 2017

Remembering My Father, His Gifts, and His Glass Eye

Remembering My Father, His Gifts, and His Glass Eye

"Encapsulating Him in Plain Language Feels Impossible"

By Jeannie Vanasco | October 3, 2017

Growing Up Gay in a Proud Southern Family

Growing Up Gay in a Proud Southern Family

"The Thing I Feared Most in Myself Would One Day Be My Greatest Joy"

By Armistead Maupin | October 2, 2017

Etty Hillesum: God, Sex, and Defiance in a Time of War

Etty Hillesum: God, Sex, and Defiance in a Time of War

A Deserving Voice for the Canon of Holocaust Literature

By Fiona Alison Duncan | September 27, 2017

Searching for My Mother, 16 Years After Her Murder

Searching for My Mother, 16 Years After Her Murder

Sarah Perry Travels Back to the Scenes of a Crime

By Sarah Perry | September 25, 2017

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Life as a Trans Man in Turn-of-the-Century America

By Emily Skidmore | September 22, 2017

To Speak is to Be Misunderstood: On Parenting and Parents

By Minna Zallman Proctor | September 21, 2017

How A Single Rosh Hashanah Dinner Sparked 10 Years of Research

By Devin Murphy | September 21, 2017

Writing Bellow's Biography While He Was Still Alive

Writing Bellow's Biography While He Was Still Alive

James Atlas on the Dangers of Befriending Your Subject

By James Atlas | September 20, 2017

A Monster No Matter What: On Being Unable to Grieve for My Father

A Monster No Matter What: On Being Unable to Grieve for My Father

"Maybe I Could Feel Pity, If Not Grief and Love"

By Mako Yoshikawa | September 20, 2017

A Lost Voice, Writer's Block, and a New Life

A Lost Voice, Writer's Block, and a New Life

Tova Mirvis Uncovers a Way to Speak the Truth

By Tova Mirvis | September 19, 2017

Keeping House to Stave Off Grief

Keeping House to Stave Off Grief

On Marilynne Robinson and Finding Comfort in Domestic Rituals

By Kristen Martin | September 14, 2017

“He Comes for the Girls.” Philip Roth on Getting Kicked Out of Prague

“He Comes for the Girls.” Philip Roth on Getting Kicked Out of Prague

A Diverting Anecdote from a Grim and Unamusing Epoch

By Philip Roth | September 8, 2017

At Ellis Island, Imagining My Father's Journey to America

At Ellis Island, Imagining My Father's Journey to America

"Perhaps They Sat on These Very Benches, Stood Where I am Standing Now"

By Jane Lazarre | September 8, 2017

A Difficult Balance: Am I a Writer or a Teacher?

A Difficult Balance: Am I a Writer or a Teacher?

Kyoko Mori Tries to Make Peace with Her Divided Self

By Kyoko Mori | September 6, 2017

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