• Memoir

    Social Media

    From This Day Backward: Avery Carpenter Forrey on Social Media and Memory

    By Avery Carpenter Forrey  May 23, 2023
    Behind the Mic

    “That Was a Big Part of My Healing.” Kwame Alexander on Narrating His New Memoir

    By Behind the Mic   May 23, 2023
    Behind the novel

    To Promote My Book, I Had To Get To Know My 25-Year-Old Self

    By Casey Plett  May 22, 2023
    Psychosis

    “Smoking Ruins Were All Around Me.” On Experiencing Psychosis For the First Time

    By Thomas Melle and Luise von Flotow  May 22, 2023
    Write-minded

    Gretchen Cherington on Investigating Toward Deeper Truths

    By Write-minded   May 22, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Samantha Irby Refuses to Organize Her Piles of Books

    By Literary Hub  May 19, 2023
    Family Stories

    Invisible Lives: Cassandra Jackson on Keeping and Discovering Family Secrets

    By Cassandra Jackson  May 19, 2023
    Behind the novel

    At the Heart of My Novel Was The Story I Could Never Write

    By Daisy Alpert Florin  May 19, 2023
    Record Stores

    Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

    By Jolene McIlwain  May 18, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    Revisiting Some Tiny Beautiful Things with Cheryl Strayed

    By Just the Right Book   May 18, 2023
    Aliens?

    We Are Not Alone: Phillip Maciak on His Summer Obsessing Over UFO Videos

    By Phillip Maciak  May 17, 2023
    Ukraine

    Beyond Metaphor: Inside the First Month of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

    By Serhiy Zhadan, Reilly Costigan‑Humes and Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler  May 17, 2023
    On Poetry

    “I Kiss My Ghosts’ Sticky Foreheads.” Jane Wong on Poetic Ambivalence and Feeding on the Past

    By Jane Wong  May 17, 2023
    Chronic Illness

    On the Black and White Paroxysms of Augustine Gleizes, Celebrity Patient

    By Emily Wells  May 16, 2023
    Family Stories

    Enjoy Your Bread! On the Unlikely Discovery of an Old Family Recipe

    By Luis Jaramillo  May 15, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Don’t Boss It Around: Abigail Thomas on Writer’s Block, Confronting Fear, and the Joys of Aging

    By Mira Ptacin  May 15, 2023
    Keen On

    Telling the Same Story Differently: Terry McDonell on Writing About His Mother, Irma

    By Keen On  May 15, 2023
    Mother's Day

    How To Write About Your Mother

    By Terry McDonell  May 12, 2023
    Medical history

    How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

    By Jennifer Lunden  May 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Emma Nadler on How Good and Bad Luck Are Inseparably Connected

    By Keen On  May 10, 2023
    Keen On

    Mariana Alessandri on How the Natural Human Condition is to Live in Darkness, Anger, and Pain

    By Keen On  May 10, 2023
    Mothers and Daughters

    Stripping Back the Mother-Daughter Relationship… At Magic Mike Live in Vegas

    By Connie Wang  May 9, 2023
    Marriage

    Kelly McMasters on Starting a Bookstore to Save Her Marriage

    By Kelly McMasters  May 9, 2023
    Family Stories

    Fae Myenne Ng on the Blurred Boundaries Between Memory and Story

    By Fae Myenne Ng  May 9, 2023
    Book Collection

    Libraries and Loss: How Our Books (Don’t) Travel With Us

    By Nasser Al-Dhafiri and Nashwa Nasreldin  May 8, 2023
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