• Memoir

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    The Food Writer Who Lost Her Sense of Smell

    By Sofia Perez  November 2, 2017
    Essay

    Chasing the Brontë Sisters from South India to the Yorkshire Moors

    By Deepa Bhasthi  November 2, 2017
    Essay

    To the Lady Who Mistook Me for the Help at the National Book Awards

    By Patrick Rosal  November 1, 2017
    Essay

    Discovering My Family’s Murderous Nazi Past

    By Sacha Batthyany  November 1, 2017
    Essay

    The Day My VW Beetle Morphed Into a Hot Rod

    By David Searcy  October 31, 2017
    Essay

    Learning the Hard Way That Writing a Book is Not Like Writing for TV

    By Evany Rosen  October 25, 2017
    Essay

    Megan Mayhew Bergman Experiences the Tao of Sunbathing

    By Megan Mayhew Bergman  October 23, 2017
    Essay

    The Dirty Secret of War: It Can Be As Compelling As It Is Ugly

    By Philip Caputo  October 20, 2017
    Excerpts

    When the French Invaded Hanoi, My Brothers Stayed Behind

    By Mai Elliott  October 20, 2017
    Essay

    A Stroke Made My Mother a Poet, I Merely Transcribed

    By Marius Chivu  October 19, 2017
    Essay

    Falling in Love Over Email: Anatomy of a Digital Courtship

    By Peter Bognanni  October 18, 2017
    Essay

    The Painting That Changed My Life

    By Kerry Folan  October 18, 2017
    Essay

    Lidia Yuknavitch: The Time I Snuck Into Ken Kesey’s Fiction Class

    By Lidia Yuknavitch  October 17, 2017
    Excerpts

    On the Literary Wheelings and Dealings of Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain

    By Ron Chernow  October 17, 2017
    Essay

    What Does Your Life Teach You About Becoming a Writer?

    By David Biespiel  October 16, 2017
    Personal Essay

    On the Hard Lessons of Being a Hockey Dad

    By Nick Paumgarten  October 10, 2017
    Excerpts

    Writing Middle-Aged Love

    By Beth Ann Fennelly  October 10, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Story I Tell Myself About My Father’s Death

    By Sharon Harrigan  October 6, 2017
    Memoir

    Chance Encounters and Intimate Exchanges With Literary Icons

    By Jonas Mekas  October 6, 2017
    Personal Essay

    To Avoid Abuse, I Became Anansi the Trickster

    By Garnette Cadogan  October 5, 2017
    Memoir

    Remembering My Father, His Gifts, and His Glass Eye

    By Jeannie Vanasco  October 3, 2017
    Memoir

    Growing Up Gay in a Proud Southern Family

    By Armistead Maupin  October 2, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Etty Hillesum: God, Sex, and Defiance in a Time of War

    By Fiona Alison Duncan  September 27, 2017
    Excerpts

    Searching for My Mother, 16 Years After Her Murder

    By Sarah Perry  September 25, 2017
    Excerpts

    Life as a Trans Man in Turn-of-the-Century America

    By Emily Skidmore  September 22, 2017
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