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Growing Up Gay on the Oil-Rich Prairie of North Dakota

Growing Up Gay on the Oil-Rich Prairie of North Dakota

Taylor Brorby: “The story of North Dakota is then the story of self-destruction.”

By Taylor Brorby | June 9, 2022

Mira Jacob on <em>Mississippi Masala</em> and Discovering Herself on Screen

Mira Jacob on Mississippi Masala and Discovering Herself on Screen

This Week on the Open Form Podcast

By Open Form | June 9, 2022

How I Learned to Think of Conflict as a Virtue

How I Learned to Think of Conflict as a Virtue

Bo Seo on the Kind of Training It Takes to Be a Successful Debater

By Bo Seo | June 9, 2022

James Patterson Remembers the Time James Baldwin Fought Norman Mailer

James Patterson Remembers the Time James Baldwin Fought Norman Mailer

“They were arguing loudly, fists clenched, looking like they were ready to rumble.”

By James Patterson | June 8, 2022

Summer Vacations Are a 19th-Century Invention of the Rich

Summer Vacations Are a 19th-Century Invention of the Rich

Charles McGrath on the Ritualizing of Idleness

By Charles McGrath | June 8, 2022

Reyna Grande on Giving Her Kids the Childhood She Never Had

Reyna Grande on Giving Her Kids the Childhood She Never Had

Reconsidering the Dream of Sweet Valley High

By Reyna Grande | June 7, 2022

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Keith Gessen Explores the Often-Disturbing Biographies of Great Children's Book Authors

By Keith Gessen | June 7, 2022

On Reading My Memoir to My Father

By Séamas O'Reilly | June 7, 2022

How to Write a Memoir About Personal Catastrophe Without Sounding Pitiful

By Keen On | June 7, 2022

<em>We Were Dreamers</em> by Simu Liu, Read by the Author

We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu, Read by the Author

Discover the Marvel Actor’s Story

By Behind the Mic | June 7, 2022

Lite-Brite Times Square: Heather O’Neill on Writing and Mothering at the (Exact) Same Time

Lite-Brite Times Square: Heather O’Neill on Writing and Mothering at the (Exact) Same Time

“Whereas I might have wished for fellow intellectuals, I instead had a very little girl.”

By Heather O'Neill | June 6, 2022

Questioning the Borders of Nonfiction to Tell the Story of an Exceptional Life

Questioning the Borders of Nonfiction to Tell the Story of an Exceptional Life

Levi Vonk on All God's Dangers and the Power of Collaborative Oral History

By Levi Vonk | June 6, 2022

Tiny Beautiful Things: Why Deborah Way Launched a Mini-Memoir Project on Instagram

Tiny Beautiful Things: Why Deborah Way Launched a Mini-Memoir Project on Instagram

How an Obsession with Mementos Grew Into a Storytelling Community

By Deborah Way | June 6, 2022

Madhushree Ghosh: How Cooking Helped Me Build a New Home

Madhushree Ghosh: How Cooking Helped Me Build a New Home

“What am I choosing to remember?”

By Madhushree Ghosh | June 6, 2022

26 Notes on Memory and Forgetting

26 Notes on Memory and Forgetting

Tedi López Mills: “Maybe I remember when I imagine because I’m already starting to forget.”

By Tedi López Mills and Robin Myers | June 3, 2022

In the Opioid Epidemic Prosecutions Don’t Always Help Victims

In the Opioid Epidemic Prosecutions Don’t Always Help Victims

Former Federal Prosecutor Valena Beety on the War on Drugs

By Valena Beety | June 2, 2022

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