• Memoir

    Essay

    Fathers Who Leave and Fathers Who Return

    By Christy Wampole  June 17, 2016
    Essay

    My Father’s Unexpected Poetic Life

    By Gretchen Marquette  June 17, 2016
    Essay

    Fatherhood: Ruining the Writing Career, Saving the Writing

    By Steve Edwards  June 17, 2016
    Essay

    Allison Wright: Dive Bars and Card Games with Dad

    By Allison Wright  June 17, 2016
    Excerpts

    Living With A Dead Language

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 15, 2016
    Excerpts

    Falling: A Daughter, A Father, and a Journey Back

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 13, 2016
    Essay

    They Found a Meth Lab in Cole Porter’s Childhood Home

    By Cathy Day  June 9, 2016
    Excerpts

    This is Not My Beautiful Life

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  June 8, 2016
    Memoir

    What My Parents Really Think About My Memoir of Alcoholism

    By Sarah Hepola  June 8, 2016
    Excerpts

    On the Hollow Spectacle of Attaining American Citizenship

    By José Orduña  June 3, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Telling

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 27, 2016
    Excerpts

    Speaking Freely

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 26, 2016
    Essay

    Prelude to a Friendship: “Denise Was Near to the Bone”

    By Paul Lisicky  May 23, 2016
    Essay

    The Suicide Memoir: True Crime, Mystery, and Grief

    By Candace Opper  May 20, 2016
    In Memoriam

    Jenny Diski, Down the Final Rabbit Hole

    By Bridget Read  May 16, 2016
    Excerpts

    When Two Feminists of Color Fall in Love

    By Ana Castillo  May 13, 2016
    Essay

    How Surviving ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy Made Me a Better Writer

    By Garrard Conley  May 11, 2016
    Excerpts

    My Father the Song Poet

    By Kao Kalia Yang  April 25, 2016
    Film

    Mitchell S. Jackson’s The Residue Years, Part One

    By Literary Hub  April 19, 2016
    Politics

    Was I a Torturer in Iraq?

    By Eric Fair  April 19, 2016
    Essay

    When Teaching is a Calling

    By Win Bassett  April 14, 2016
    Essay

    The Time I Almost Died On the Appalachian Trail

    By Benjamin Warner  April 12, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Iceberg

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 7, 2016
    Essay

    On the Impossibility of Seeing Yourself

    By Kathryn Harrison  April 7, 2016
    Essay

    A Fundamentalist Christian Discovers the Greater World

    By Kelly Kerney  April 6, 2016
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