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Tide In, Tide Out: Anne Lamott on Growing Old and Making Peace with Death

Tide In, Tide Out: Anne Lamott on Growing Old and Making Peace with Death

“My father’s death feels like it was twenty years ago but it was more than forty-five.”

By Anne Lamott | April 10, 2024

How Dyslexia Made Me More Passionate About Reading (and Selling) Books

How Dyslexia Made Me More Passionate About Reading (and Selling) Books

Cappy Yarbrough on Her Complicated Relationship with Books, Working at a Bookstore, and Dealing with a Wild Range of Customers

By Cappy Yarbrough | April 10, 2024

Shock, Awe, and Fun: How David Jones Became David Bowie

Shock, Awe, and Fun: How David Jones Became David Bowie

Suzi Ronson on Witnessing the Rise of a Rock Icon

By Suzi Ronson | April 8, 2024

Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

Mairead Small Staid Considers What It Means to Not Recognize Ourselves and the Ones We Love

By Mairead Small Staid | April 8, 2024

On the Time the Iron Sheik Threatened to Kill Me

On the Time the Iron Sheik Threatened to Kill Me

Brad Balukjian on Falling in Love with Professional Wrestling, Kayfabe, and Fact-Checking an Angry Childhood Hero

By Brad Balukjian | April 8, 2024

“Something More Bare and More Raw Than a Man.” Constance Debré on Learning to Love Women

“Something More Bare and More Raw Than a Man.” Constance Debré on Learning to Love Women

When You Abandon Your Marriage, Your Career, and Your Bourgeois Parisian Life

By Constance Debré | April 5, 2024

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No Perfect Laps, No Perfect Drafts: Jade Song on What Swimming Taught Her About Writing

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On Publishing My Memoir of Grief As My Father Lays Dying

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Kristine S. Ervin: “I need to be that daughter again, who can cry into the chest of my father.”

By Kristine S. Ervin | March 27, 2024

Why I Chose to Be the Cover Model for My Own Novel

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Alvina Chamberland: “I want to take up as much space as possible, both body and soul.”

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Style As Survival: On Writing After Death

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Joyelle McSweeney Explores the Creative Process That Grief Provokes

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