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Fetishizing Violence: Juniper Fitzgerald on Unlearning the Gothic Narrative

Fetishizing Violence: Juniper Fitzgerald on Unlearning the Gothic Narrative

Against Humbert Humberts, Draculas, and Vincents

By Juniper Fitzgerald | August 30, 2022

Pizza Hut For Dinner: An Ode to the “Book It” Program

Pizza Hut For Dinner: An Ode to the “Book It” Program

Deborah Liu on the Programs That Inspire a Life of Learning

By Deborah Liu | August 29, 2022

Guy Delisle on Meeting His Cartoonist Idol, José Muñoz

Guy Delisle on Meeting His Cartoonist Idol, José Muñoz

From Guy Delisle's World Record Holders

By Guy Delisle | August 29, 2022

How Creative Thinking Can—and Should—Inform Medical Science

How Creative Thinking Can—and Should—Inform Medical Science

Dr. Jay Baruch on the Value of "Not-Knowing" in Practicing Medicine

By Dr. Jay Baruch | August 29, 2022

My Little Italian Donkey and Me: Martha Cooley on Moving to Italy Later in Life

My Little Italian Donkey and Me: Martha Cooley on Moving to Italy Later in Life

“Donkeys are both fascinating and frustrating. Their behaviors resist easy interpretation.”

By Martha Cooley | August 26, 2022

Jerome Charyn on Finding Literary Inspiration at the Movie Theater

Jerome Charyn on Finding Literary Inspiration at the Movie Theater

“I didn’t have to stumble with words on a page. Images on the screen became my vocabulary.”

By Jerome Charyn | August 25, 2022

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The Patterns, Routines, and Pervasive Fear of Daily Life in Prison

By Keith Corbin and Kevin Alexander | August 25, 2022

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A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

A Brief Political—and Personal—History of Gay Bathhouses

Rasheed Newson on Sexually Accommodating Spaces as Community Hubs, and the Moral Panics That Destroyed Them

By Rasheed Newson | August 23, 2022

What Five Years with a Predatory Vanity Press Taught Me About Art and Success

What Five Years with a Predatory Vanity Press Taught Me About Art and Success

Alexa T. Dodd on a Book Deal That Seemed Too Good to Be True

By Alexa T. Dodd | August 22, 2022

Kristine Langley Mahler on How Online Rabbit Holes Fuel Creativity

Kristine Langley Mahler on How Online Rabbit Holes Fuel Creativity

“The looking is the creeper behavior, but the processing of those digital finds can become the nonfiction writer’s justification.”

By Kristine Langley Mahler | August 22, 2022

The Making of a Muse: When Edie Sedgwick Met Andy Warhol

The Making of a Muse: When Edie Sedgwick Met Andy Warhol

Alice Sedgwick Wohl on Her Sister’s Transformation From Model To Icon

By Alice Sedgwick Wohl | August 19, 2022

Finding Healing at Paris’s Shakespeare and Company

Finding Healing at Paris’s Shakespeare and Company

Natasha Sizlo on Realizing She Needed to Write

By Natasha Sizlo | August 19, 2022

The Lies That Make Up a Marriage

The Lies That Make Up a Marriage

Rebecca Woolf on the Beginning of the End

By Rebecca Woolf | August 19, 2022

The Books That Help Beth Macy Find Threads of Hope While Writing About Trauma

The Books That Help Beth Macy Find Threads of Hope While Writing About Trauma

A Reading List for Alleviating Panic in the Face of Secondary Trauma

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