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Memoir

Origin Stories

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
Feminist Classics

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

By Chris Cander  July 1, 2022
Journalism

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

By David Michael Ettlin  June 30, 2022
The Virtual Book Channel

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

By The Virtual Book Channel  June 30, 2022
In Conversation

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
Nostalgia

Alex Balk on the Bittersweetness of Encountering a Beloved Childhood Toy

By Alex Balk  June 29, 2022
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Incarceration

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

By Keri Blakinger  June 29, 2022
Motherhood

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

By Alexis Schaitkin  June 29, 2022
News and Culture

Mary Pipher on the Dizzying Pitfalls of Instant Fame

By Mary Pipher  June 29, 2022
Correspondence

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
Farming

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

By Ellyn Gaydos  June 28, 2022
Correspondence

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

By Nikki Erlick  June 28, 2022
Family Stories

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

By Abi Morgan  June 27, 2022
Writing

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
Write-minded

Kathryn Schulz on Making and Finding Meaning in Memoir

By Write-minded   June 27, 2022
Happy Pride

Anger, Joy, Resistance: Queer Readings For Pride Month

By Literary Hub  June 24, 2022
Happy Pride

111 Queer Books Recommended by Librarians, Booksellers, and Authors

By Literary Hub  June 24, 2022
Queer Sex

Sex, Freedom, Cruising, and Consent: A Conversation with Garth Greenwell

Andrew Sciallo Talks to the Author of What Belongs to You and Cleanness About Queer Spaces (and the Awakenings Therein)

By Andrew Sciallo  June 24, 2022
Narrative

Repetition Ruins a Narrative: On Trying to Create Amid the Sameness of Pandemic Parenting

By Rosalie Knecht  June 23, 2022
Fiction/Non/Fiction

“A War I Saw Unfolding Firsthand.” Héctor Tobar on the 30th Anniversary of the LA Riots

By Fiction Non Fiction  June 23, 2022
On Death

Alex Kiester on Obsessing Over Her Mother’s (Eventual) Death

By Alex Kiester  June 23, 2022
On Trying

They Say It Only Takes One: My Year of Trying to Get an Agent, and Get Pregnant

Emily Lackey on Learning to Let Go of How She Thought It Would Look

By Emily Lackey  June 22, 2022
Indigenous Voices

Of Wazhazhe Land and Language: The Ongoing Project of Ancestral Work

By Chelsea T. Hicks  June 22, 2022
Journals

To the Stranger Who Returned My Lost Notebook

By Leigh N. Gallagher  June 21, 2022
Day jobs

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

By Wesley Straton  June 28, 2022
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