• Memoir

    Creative Nonfiction

    Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World

    By Ingrid Horrocks  January 6, 2022
    Cities

    Brooklyn Is Where the Heart Is: On Leaving Home to Write About It

    By Xochitl Gonzalez  January 6, 2022
    Tennis

    My Year of Yes: On Falling in Love with Competitive Tennis at Age 41

    By Scarlett Thomas  January 6, 2022
    Writing Advice

    Learning, Practice, and Repetition: Why the Act of Writing Is Work

    By Jessie Greengrass  January 5, 2022
    Borders

    Crossing the Distance Between Fact and Truth in a Story About Love and Exile

    By Yara Zgheib  January 4, 2022
    Publishing

    How Being a Stalled Novelist Led to an Unexpected Career in Data Science

    By C.J. Washington  January 3, 2022
    Pandemics

    Piercing the Veil of Silence: How the Outbreak of COVID-19 Impacted the Writing of My Book

    By Wallis Wilde-Menozzi  December 23, 2021
    Journalism

    When New Journalism Was New: Gay Talese on His Legendary Esquire Profile of Frank Sinatra

    By Gay Talese  December 22, 2021
    Criticism

    The Weaponization of Quiet: On the Subtle Horror of Ayşegül Savaş’s White on White

    By Francesca Giacco  December 21, 2021
    Film Actors

    Sharon Gless on Her First Stage Appearance and Earning a Seven-Year Contract for Universal Studios

    By Sharon Gless  December 21, 2021
    Childhood

    Orhan Pamuk on a Lost Pool, and the World Beneath Its Surface

    By Orhan Pamuk  December 20, 2021
    Historical Fiction

    Why You Shouldn’t Read Historical Fiction to Learn History

    By Juhea Kim  December 20, 2021
    Movies

    Mel Brooks on the Making of Spaceballs

    By Mel Brooks  December 16, 2021
    In Memoriam

    Afrodisiac: A Textual Meditation on Greg Tate

    By Michael A. Gonzales  December 14, 2021
    Influences

    Words with Fangs: Finding Myself in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents

    By Elizabeth Acevedo  December 14, 2021
    Grief

    Why We Need New Vocabulary to Describe the Ending of the Grief That Comes After Loss

    By Pauline Boss  December 14, 2021
    Craft

    What Happens When I Don’t Understand My Own Novel?

    By Bonnie Friedman  December 13, 2021
    Wine

    “The Wines Tasted Alive.” Visiting an Icon of Natural Winemaking in Slovenia

    By Rachel Signer  December 13, 2021
    Social Justice

    On Telling the Story of Injustice Through Memoir

    By Literary Hub  December 13, 2021
    Creative Nonfiction

    The New Outliers: How Creative Nonfiction Became a Legitimate, Serious Genre

    By Lee Gutkind  December 13, 2021
    Motherhood

    On the Fleeting Wonder of Youth and the Surreal Permanence of Motherhood

    By Mira Ptacin  December 9, 2021
    TV

    Sonia Manzano on Finding Her Way to Sesame Street

    By Sonia Manzano  December 8, 2021
    Language

    Of Fathers, Sons, and Unthinking Insults

    By Obed Silva  December 8, 2021
    Psychology

    The Scapegoat: Siri Hustvedt on the Torture and Murder of Sylvia Likens

    By Siri Hustvedt  December 7, 2021
    Best of the Year

    The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies of 2021

    By Book Marks  December 7, 2021
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