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Allure and Illusions: My Seven-Year-Old, Me, and the Cult of Gymnastics

Allure and Illusions: My Seven-Year-Old, Me, and the Cult of Gymnastics

Alison Wisdom Finds Similarities Between an Elite Sport and a Fundamentalist Church

By Alison Wisdom | September 21, 2022

Screaming in Secret: Dahlia Lithwick on the Women Who Work Within the Legal System

Screaming in Secret: Dahlia Lithwick on the Women Who Work Within the Legal System

“For all the flaws of the legal system, of the court system, and even of the #MeToo movement, it helped us find our way to one another.”

By Dahlia Lithwick | September 20, 2022

Where Blackness is a World of Possibility

Where Blackness is a World of Possibility

Hafizah Augustus Geter on the Shape of Black Joy

By Hafizah Augustus Geter | September 20, 2022

How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

Jess deCourcy Hinds on the Most Popular School Supply of All Time

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | September 19, 2022

Exploring Spaces Between Experiences and Stories: Rachel Aviv and Chloé Cooper Jones in Conversation

Exploring Spaces Between Experiences and Stories: Rachel Aviv and Chloé Cooper Jones in Conversation

The Author of Strangers to Ourselves Discusses Diagnoses, Introspection, and the Collaborative Process of Writing about Real People

By Chloé Cooper Jones | September 19, 2022

The Lost Stitch, The Loosened Tile: Akiko Busch on the Ambiguities of Home

The Lost Stitch, The Loosened Tile: Akiko Busch on the Ambiguities of Home

“I remember the feel of these rooms much more than I even remember the people in them.”

By Akiko Busch | September 19, 2022

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Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction</em>’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by Lauren Hough

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A Life Told in Dishes: Five Essential Food Memoirs

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By Sylvie Bigar | September 14, 2022

How Black History Saved Me: Peniel E. Joseph on His Path to Scholar-Activism

How Black History Saved Me: Peniel E. Joseph on His Path to Scholar-Activism

Tracing an Education, from W.E.B. Du Bois to Sonia Sanchez

By Peniel E. Joseph | September 14, 2022

“I Can’t Believe I’ve Done This.” Jerry Stahl on Going All in for the Story

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In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | September 14, 2022

On Muriel Spark’s Complicated Balancing of Writing and Motherhood

On Muriel Spark’s Complicated Balancing of Writing and Motherhood

Begoña Gómez Urzaiz Considers the Competing Demands of Career and Childcare

By Begoña Gómez Urzaiz | September 12, 2022

Mychal Denzel Smith on How to Have an Opinion in Memoir

Mychal Denzel Smith on How to Have an Opinion in Memoir

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | September 12, 2022

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