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What My Parents Really Think About My Memoir of Alcoholism

What My Parents Really Think About My Memoir of Alcoholism

Sarah Hepola Interviews Her Mother and Father

By Sarah Hepola | June 8, 2016

On Machines That Shit, and Fictional Characters That Do Not

On Machines That Shit, and Fictional Characters That Do Not

Benjamin Hale Considers Cloaca, Orpheus, and Pooping

By Benjamin Hale | June 6, 2016

Escaping the Self-Critical Eye for the Sake of My Daughter

Escaping the Self-Critical Eye for the Sake of My Daughter

Helen Phillips on Body Image, Motherhood, and Owning Your Idiosyncratic Self

By Helen Phillips | June 3, 2016

Action: A Book About Sex

Action: A Book About Sex

Amy Rose Spiegel

By Lit Hub Excerpts | May 19, 2016

On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

Pamela Erens, Rivka Glachen, Julia Fierro, and writing about motherhood

By Jordan Rosenfeld | May 6, 2016

Why Literature Needs Psychology

Why Literature Needs Psychology

Two Disciplines Wrestling With the Same Big Questions

By Jennifer R. Bernstein | May 2, 2016

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Remembering Jenny Diski

By Literary Hub | April 29, 2016

@diski, Inventive to the Last

By Joanna Walsh | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski Didn't Need Your Admiration

By Michelle Dean | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski, A Woman Incapable of Self-Pity

Jenny Diski, A Woman Incapable of Self-Pity

An Exacting Intelligence That Terrified and Inspired in Equal Measure

By Charlotte Shane | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski, My Maureen

Jenny Diski, My Maureen

Her Work Mitigated the Solitude of Parenting

By Rumaan Alam | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski Was Afraid, But It Didn't Stop Her

Jenny Diski Was Afraid, But It Didn't Stop Her

She was balls-to-the-walls writing and dying

By Bridget Read | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski Left Room For Her Readers

Jenny Diski Left Room For Her Readers

Haley Mlotek on a Special Copy of The Sixties

By Haley Mlotek | April 29, 2016

Jenny Diski Looked Cancer—And Her Readers—In The Eye

Jenny Diski Looked Cancer—And Her Readers—In The Eye

no bullshit, no sugar-coating, no imposed toughness

By Marta Bausells | April 29, 2016

Melissa Broder: Thoughts On Open Marriage and Illness

Melissa Broder: Thoughts On Open Marriage and Illness

On Being in a Relationship with Illness

By Melissa Broder | April 13, 2016

At Home in Deaf Culture: Storytelling in an Un-Writable Language

At Home in Deaf Culture: Storytelling in an Un-Writable Language

Sara Novic on the Rich Complexity of American Sign Language

By Sara Nović | April 11, 2016

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