Memoir

Book Origins

On Heartbreak, Absence, and Falling in Love with The Great Gatsby

David Stuart MacLean Charts the Path to His Gatsby-Inspired Novel

 
By David Stuart MacLean  January 21, 2021
Book Origins

I Watched a Baby Being Born So I Could Write My Book

By Janice P. Nimura  January 20, 2021
On Grief

Resisting the Badge of ‘Resilience’ in the Wake of a Devastating Loss

By Emily Rapp Black  January 20, 2021
Politics

Writing Through the Silences of a Lost Family History

By Jonathan Lichtenstein  January 20, 2021
The Literary Salon

Remembering Deborah Orr with a Reading of Her Memoir, Motherwell

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  January 20, 2021
Religion

Conflagration and Catastrophe: On Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Doom of COVID-19

By Daniel Allen Cox  January 19, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Family History

Living That Van Life, Before It
Was a Hashtag

By Amanda Mei Kim  January 15, 2021
Totalitarianism

Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

By Kim Echlin  January 15, 2021
Reading Lists

How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

By Michael Leviton  January 15, 2021
Personal History

André Aciman: On Yearning for the Not-Yet and What Could Have Been

"The irrealis mood disrupts all verbal tenses, moods, and aspects."

By André Aciman  January 21, 2021
On Memoir

On Putting the Most Vulnerable Parts of Yourself on the Page

By Justine Cowan  January 14, 2021
Reported Memoirs

Trouble for Your Thoughts: On Reported Creative Nonfiction

By Kenneth R. Rosen  January 13, 2021
Book Origins

On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  January 13, 2021
On Race

On Navigating the Intricacies of Race and the Violence of Antiblackness in America

Nadia Owusu Reflects on Her Years in America as a Young Adult

By Nadia Owusu  January 12, 2021
Personal History

Am I Argentine? On Identity, Tradition and Finding Ties to One’s Homeland

By Daniel Loedel  January 12, 2021
Storybound

Paul Lisicky Performs an Excerpt from His Memoir Later

By Storybound   January 12, 2021
Book Origins

On Imagining Gatsby
Before Gatsby

By Michael Farris Smith  January 11, 2021
Trauma

The Color Purple and the Language of Healing from Trauma

Salamishah Tillet on Giving Voice to Survivors

By Salamishah Tillet  January 11, 2021
Community

The Deep Connection of West Virginia’s Indian Community

By Neema Avashia  January 8, 2021
Singing

What It’s Like to Learn to Sing in Your Fifties

By Tom Vanderbilt  January 8, 2021
Exercise

Exercise is Good. But How Do We Make More Fun?

By Daniel Lieberman  January 7, 2021
Thresholds

Announcing Season 3 of the Thresholds Podcast

Acclaimed Writers Reveal Life-Changing Experiences

By Thresholds   January 7, 2021
Drafts

What Really Goes On in a Writer’s Notebook?

By Danielle McLaughlin  January 6, 2021
On Writing

People Still Ask: How Do Writers Get Their Ideas?

By Lore Segal  January 6, 2021
Writing Advice

In Favor of Speed:
Write Fast, Fix Later

By Mateo Askaripour  January 14, 2021
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