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Dollars, Cents, and Being Left With the Bill: Jillian Medoff on Breaking Up With Her Literary Agent

Dollars, Cents, and Being Left With the Bill: Jillian Medoff on Breaking Up With Her Literary Agent

“Business isn’t emotional, but people are.”

By Jillian Medoff | August 5, 2022

When Your Mother is a Hoarder: On the Pain of Loosening My Grip on a Family Secret

When Your Mother is a Hoarder: On the Pain of Loosening My Grip on a Family Secret

Emi Nietfeld Recalls the Difficult First Meeting Between Her Fiancé’s Family and Her Mother

By Emi Nietfeld | August 5, 2022

A Name on a Line: Chrysta Bilton Tells the Story of Her Birth

A Name on a Line: Chrysta Bilton Tells the Story of Her Birth

With an Extremely Brief Appearance by Her Father

By Chrysta Bilton | August 5, 2022

The Novels We Wrote When We Were 17: Adam Langer on High School Rumors and Storytelling

The Novels We Wrote When We Were 17: Adam Langer on High School Rumors and Storytelling

Or, How the Memories of the Past Haunt the Stories of the Present

By Adam Langer | August 4, 2022

Lynne Tillman on Watching a Mother’s Final Days

Lynne Tillman on Watching a Mother’s Final Days

“Dying is inevitable, but estranged from anything you know.”

By Lynne Tillman | August 3, 2022

Meet-Cute: Susan Coll on Falling In Love with (and at) a Bookstore

Meet-Cute: Susan Coll on Falling In Love with (and at) a Bookstore

And They All Lived Happily Ever After

By Susan Coll | August 3, 2022

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By Jana Casale | August 3, 2022

Michelle Tea on Crossing the Threshold from Ambivalence to Wanting a Baby

By Thresholds | August 3, 2022

Lynne Tillman on the Awe-Inducing Experience of Witnessing Her Mother Die

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | August 3, 2022

Michelle Tea on Undertaking the Wild Art Project of Motherhood

Michelle Tea on Undertaking the Wild Art Project of Motherhood

“It seemed like having a kid was the only adventure I hadn’t undertaken.”

By Michelle Tea | August 2, 2022

Visiting Mariah Carey’s Cat’s Grave: Reflections on Disenfranchised Grief

Visiting Mariah Carey’s Cat’s Grave: Reflections on Disenfranchised Grief

E.B. Bartels on the Particular Sorrow of Losing a Pet

By E.B. Bartels | August 2, 2022

Anxiety and Responsibility: What Stories Can Come From Our Current Moment?

Anxiety and Responsibility: What Stories Can Come From Our Current Moment?

Clare Pollard on the Urgency of Writing About Now

By Clare Pollard | August 2, 2022

The Pain-Writing-Money Trifecta: On Nora Ephron and Grief as Copy

The Pain-Writing-Money Trifecta: On Nora Ephron and Grief as Copy

Ella Risbridger Considers Art, Life, and Truth

By Ella Risbridger | August 1, 2022

A Gathering of Stones: Aimee Bender on the Earth’s Best Secret-Keepers

A Gathering of Stones: Aimee Bender on the Earth’s Best Secret-Keepers

“I felt a kinship with the stones.”

By Aimee Bender | August 1, 2022

I Once Wrote—and Spoke, and Thought—in Russian... No More

I Once Wrote—and Spoke, and Thought—in Russian... No More

Volodymyr Rafeenko on Unlearning His Mother Tongue

By Volodymyr Rafeenko | July 29, 2022

“An Open Heart, Armor Down.” Maud Newton and Ann Leary in Conversation

“An Open Heart, Armor Down.” Maud Newton and Ann Leary in Conversation

On Motivation, Family Histories, and Sleuthing Talents

By Literary Hub | July 29, 2022

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