• Memoir

    Pride

    37 Drag Race Contestants (and RuPaul) on Drag as an Art Form and the Show’s Legacy

    “What’s brilliant about drag is that it is actually the truth of who we all are.”

     
    By Maria Elena Fernandez  June 1, 2023
    Wine

    “Do Wines Make Women Giggly?” On Sexism in Wine Culture

    By Meg Bernhard  June 1, 2023
    rebirth

    Boundaries Dissolve: Joanna Biggs on Reading Ferrante With Other Women

    By Joanna Biggs  June 1, 2023
    Keen On

    Stephanie Kramer Offers an Empowered Approach to Navigating Pregnancy and Work

    By Keen On  June 1, 2023
    Family Stories

    The Ethics of Writing Hard Things in Family Memoir

    By Kelly McMasters  May 31, 2023
    Keen On

    Elise Loehnen on Why Women Should Indulge Their Sinful Sides

    By Keen On  May 31, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Motherhood

    No Alternatives: On (Not) Choosing to Be a Mother in Rural America

    By Monica Potts  May 31, 2023
    Bookstores

    The Village Bookstore: Alba Donati on Returning to Her Rural Tuscan Roots

    By Alba Donati  May 31, 2023
    On Death

    Saying Goodbye: Hannah Lillith Assadi on Brian Cox, Logan Roy, and Her Father

    By Hannah Lillith Assadi  May 26, 2023
    Reading Lists

    Ten LGBTQ+ Authors on the Books That Taught Them

    James Frankie Thomas, Amelia Possanza, Richard Mirabella, Gina Chung, and Many More Reflect on Their Formative Texts

    By Samantha Paige Rosen  June 1, 2023
    Fathers and Sons

    A Room Without a View: How to Create Space (and Time) for Creativity (on the Toilet)

    By Daniel Wallace  May 26, 2023
    Summer reading

    25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

    By Literary Hub  May 25, 2023
    Mental health

    Author Susanna Kaysen Revisits Girl, Interrupted 30 Years After Its Publication

    By Susanna Kaysen  May 23, 2023
    Food Writing

    Kwame Alexander on the Legacies of Love Passed Down Through Food

    Plus a Free Recipe for 7 Up Pound Cake from the Author of Why Fathers Cry at Night

    By Kwame Alexander  May 23, 2023
    Family Stories

    Time For a Change: Rachel Louise Snyder on the Beginning of the End of Her Family

    By Rachel Louise Snyder  May 23, 2023
    Social Media

    From This Day Backward: Avery Carpenter Forrey on Social Media and Memory

    By Avery Carpenter Forrey  May 23, 2023
    Behind the Mic

    “That Was a Big Part of My Healing.” Kwame Alexander on Narrating His New Memoir

    By Behind the Mic   May 23, 2023
    Behind the novel

    To Promote My Book, I Had To Get To Know My 25-Year-Old Self

    Casey Plett on the Distance Between Author-Selves, Ten Years Apart

    By Casey Plett  May 22, 2023
    Psychosis

    “Smoking Ruins Were All Around Me.” On Experiencing Psychosis For the First Time

    By Thomas Melle and Luise von Flotow  May 22, 2023
    Write-minded

    Gretchen Cherington on Investigating Toward Deeper Truths

    By Write-minded   May 22, 2023
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Samantha Irby Refuses to Organize Her Piles of Books

    By Literary Hub  May 19, 2023
    Family Stories

    Invisible Lives: Cassandra Jackson on Keeping and Discovering Family Secrets

    “Though our loss is still hers, she has a profound loss that is all her own.”

    By Cassandra Jackson  May 19, 2023
    Behind the novel

    At the Heart of My Novel Was The Story I Could Never Write

    By Daisy Alpert Florin  May 19, 2023
    Record Stores

    Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

    By Jolene McIlwain  May 18, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Ana Veciana-Suarez on Writing Through Difficult Things and Re-imagining Cervantes

    By The Literary Life  May 26, 2023
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