• Memoir

    Meditation

    Missed Chances for Mindfulness: On Trying and Failing to Meditate

    By Zach Zimmerman  April 21, 2023
    Friendships

    Why We All Need Dinner Parties in Our Lives

    By Natasha Feldman  April 20, 2023
    Games

    How Board Game Geek Helped Make Board Games More Inclusive

    By Aaron Trammell  April 20, 2023
    Queer Literature

    How Messy Can a
    Rom-Com Be?

    By Carlyn Greenwald  April 20, 2023
    Dogs

    Falling in Love with a Dog and the World

    By Ramona Ausubel  April 19, 2023
    Parenthood

    You Can Hate Leaving Your Child, and Be Glad You Went

    By Mary Louise Kelly  April 19, 2023
    The Hub

    This book club connects incarcerated fathers to the outside world.

    By Janet Manley  April 17, 2023
    Shakespeare

    Hideous Shakespeare: On Courting Ugliness in Portraiture

    By Lee Durkee  April 17, 2023
    The Writing Life

    The Bolt Bus Was My Biweekly Bardo: Life Between Writer and Daughter

    By Blair Hurley  April 17, 2023
    Keen On

    Margo Jefferson on Ella Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and the Refraction of Her Life Through Memoir

    By Keen On  April 17, 2023
    Keen On

    Grant Lindsley on What He Learned in His Stumbling Search for Wisdom in a Thai Forest Monastery

    By Keen On  April 17, 2023
    The Writing Life

    I Would Drive 222 Miles (To Be a Writer)

    By Jeff Boyd  April 13, 2023
    Cultural Identity

    An Interrogation of Identity as a Hyphenated Man

    By Omer Aziz  April 13, 2023
    Keen On

    Beth Behrendt on How to Co-Parent in the Family Home After the Marriage Ends

    By Keen On  April 13, 2023
    Motherhood

    Maggie Smith on the Anxious, Silent First Year of Motherhood

    By Maggie Smith  April 12, 2023
    Baseball

    Captain Dynamite and the Exploding Coffin of Death: The Greatest Minor League Baseball Entertainment… Ever?

    By Ryan McGee  April 12, 2023
    Keen On

    Anjan Sundaram on the Devastating Personal Costs of Being a War Correspondent in Africa

    By Keen On  April 12, 2023
    Chronic Pain

    Learning to Stop Pretending That I’m Okay (Or, Finding Relief in Acceptance)

    By Hanna Halperin  April 12, 2023
    Writing About Disability

    Losing My Hearing Showed Me a New Way to Write About the Self

    By John Cotter  April 11, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Jenny Odell on the Relationship Between Time and Power

    By Talk Easy  April 11, 2023
    Aging

    Once You Start to Look, You See the Disappeared Are Everywhere

    By Andrew Porter  April 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Max J. Friedman on Why He Chose to Write a Memoir About His Holocaust-Surviving Parents

    By Keen On  April 11, 2023
    First Draft

    Maggie Smith on How She Approached Plot in Her Memoir

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 10, 2023
    Essays

    Writing From the Margins: On the Origins and Development of the Lyric Essay

    By Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold  April 10, 2023
    The Maris Review

    Nicole Chung on the Task of Winnowing a Life Story (and the Magic of Dogs)

    By The Maris Review  April 6, 2023
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