Memoir

Activism

Marching the Streets of San Francisco With Novelist and Activist, Kay Boyle

Marianne Goldsmith on the Hero Whose Name We Should All Know

 
By Marianne Goldsmith  May 7, 2021
The Hub

Greta Lee will write and star in A24’s TV adaptation of Cathy Park Hong’s Minor Feelings.

By Walker Caplan  May 6, 2021
Writers on Writers

My Boxing is Everything: On Trying to Punch Like Ernest Hemingway

By Alison Dean  May 6, 2021
On Grief

A Stone You Never Put Down: The Secret Languages of Grief

By Carol Smith  May 6, 2021
Publishing

All in the Timing: On Publishing a Novel Nine Years After Giving Up on It

By Joy Lanzendorfer  May 5, 2021
Fishing

Seeking Stillness and Sunlight: On the Art of Fly-Fishing

By David Coggins  May 5, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Reading Lists

Dylanalia, Deep Data, and More: New and Noteworthy Nonfiction This May

By Literary Hub  May 5, 2021
Personal Space

Personal Space: Julie Metz on Memoir as the Key to Locked Family Stories

By The Virtual Book Channel  May 5, 2021
The Hub

This is how Alison Bechdel jumpstarts her creativity.

By Vanessa Willoughby  May 3, 2021
In Memoriam

A Lasting Gift: Remembering My Friend Kim Chernin

Gail Reitano on the Life and Career of a Beloved Mentor and Kindred Spirit

By Gail Reitano  May 7, 2021
The Internet Age

Seeking a Counterculture of Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing

By Pete Davis  May 3, 2021
Cultural Identity

Exploring My Disparate Cultures in Fiction Helped Me Better Understand Them Both

By Gian Sardar  May 3, 2021
Interview

Adam Mansbach on the Difficulty of Writing an Honest Elegy About His Brother

By Shawn Setaro  May 3, 2021
The Hub

“Write as if you were dying.” Read Annie Dillard’s greatest writing advice.

By Walker Caplan  April 30, 2021
Mothers

Excerpts from A Mother Is an Intellectual Thing

By Kimberly Grey  April 30, 2021
Big Table

Tosh Berman on the Sexism of the Muse Myth

By Big Table  April 30, 2021
Childhood

Looking for God in Teddy Ruxpin: Brandi Carlile on Faith and Music

By Brandi Carlile  April 29, 2021
The Hub

Lil’ Kim is publishing a memoir.

By Walker Caplan  April 28, 2021
Civil Rights

The Man Who Set Out to Kill Segregation… or Be Killed by It

By Charles Person  April 28, 2021
Life in a Pandemic

Comfort in Quarantine: On Going Deeper Into the Solitude of Books

By Jaime Fuller  April 27, 2021
China

Light the Fire and Fan the Flames: Surviving China’s Cultural Revolution

By Kent Wong  April 27, 2021
Childhood

Complicated Comfort: Finding Unlikely Escape in the Restoration of a Childhood Dollhouse

Kate Guadagnino on the Solace of Neglected Objects

By Kate Guadagnino  April 26, 2021
Graphic Memoir

Saying the Unsaid: How Writing a Graphic Memoir Helped Dispel My Family’s Shame

By Margaret Kimball  April 26, 2021
Journalism

Misadventures in J-School: When Grad School is the Wrong Thing

By Lilly Dancyger  April 23, 2021
Reading Lists

Redefining the Modern Flâneuse: A Reading List

By Kavita Bedford  May 3, 2021
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