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From Memoir to Fiction: A World More Beautiful and Real than Reality

From Memoir to Fiction: A World More Beautiful and Real than Reality

Yara Zgheib on Blending the Real With the Imaginary

By Yara Zgheib | July 5, 2022

The Alchemy of Language: Ina Cariño on Naming, Claiming, and Protecting Ancestral Land

The Alchemy of Language: Ina Cariño on Naming, Claiming, and Protecting Ancestral Land

“I spell myself deliberately, with intention: an alchemization, plain metal to gold.”

By Ina Cariño | July 1, 2022

Jen Mediano on Letter-Writing, Losing Touch, and Second-Hand Mourning

Jen Mediano on Letter-Writing, Losing Touch, and Second-Hand Mourning

“Letters are a hinge into the invisible world; a place to share and to hone.”

By Jen Mediano | July 1, 2022

Required Reading: How My Daughter’s Homework Inspired My Novel

Required Reading: How My Daughter’s Homework Inspired My Novel

Chris Cander on the Perpetual Relevance of Susan Glaspell's 1917 Story “A Jury of Her Peers”

By Chris Cander | July 1, 2022

Heat, Rain, and Snow in Baltimore: On Reporting in the Pre-Digital Era

Heat, Rain, and Snow in Baltimore: On Reporting in the Pre-Digital Era

David Michael Ettlin Finds Community in the Newsroom

By David Michael Ettlin | June 30, 2022

WATCH: Keith Gessen on the Profound (and Often Maddening) Experience of Being a Dad

WATCH: Keith Gessen on the Profound (and Often Maddening) Experience of Being a Dad

In Conversation with Jessica Grose at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 30, 2022

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In One of Her Last Interviews, Joan Didion Talks to Hari Kunzru About Loss, Blue Nights, and Giving Up the Yellow Corvette

By Hari Kunzru | June 29, 2022

Alex Balk on the Bittersweetness of Encountering a Beloved Childhood Toy

By Alex Balk | June 29, 2022

The Knife’s Edge Between Dopesickness and Delusional Hope: Keri Blakinger on Her First Week in Jail

By Keri Blakinger | June 29, 2022

Writing Into the Future: What Motherhood and Creativity Have in Common

Writing Into the Future: What Motherhood and Creativity Have in Common

Alexis Schaitkin on Bringing Babies and Novels Into the World

By Alexis Schaitkin | June 29, 2022

Mary Pipher on the Dizzying Pitfalls of Instant Fame

Mary Pipher on the Dizzying Pitfalls of Instant Fame

“From these experiences, I learned that nothing was glamorous.”

By Mary Pipher | June 29, 2022

On “Creative Cross-Training.” How Bartending Helped Me Write My Novel

On “Creative Cross-Training.” How Bartending Helped Me Write My Novel

Wesley Straton Outlines the Benefits of Working the Bar Shift

By Wesley Straton | June 28, 2022

Fiddleheads, F*ck Ups, and Life on the Farm

Fiddleheads, F*ck Ups, and Life on the Farm

“On the farm there isn’t a maze of an ecosystem but just a simple human plan.”

By Ellyn Gaydos | June 28, 2022

What a Letter Captures—and Preserves—in the Age of Social Media

What a Letter Captures—and Preserves—in the Age of Social Media

Nikki Erlick on the Lost, Intimate Art of Letter Writing

By Nikki Erlick | June 28, 2022

How to Write a Memoir About Family Tragedy (That People Want to Read)

How to Write a Memoir About Family Tragedy (That People Want to Read)

Abi Morgan: “Nobody wants to read therapy.”

By Abi Morgan | June 27, 2022

Clare Pooley on Writerly Perseverance and Knowing When To Give Up

Clare Pooley on Writerly Perseverance and Knowing When To Give Up

“You must never give up on writing itself. But sometimes you need to give up on what you’re writing.”

By Clare Pooley | June 27, 2022

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