• Memoir

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    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
    Conversations

    Rob Spillman on Craving Danger and Writing the Past

    By Michael Barron  April 6, 2016
    Criticism

    On Maggie Nelson’s The Red Parts, Ten Years Later

    By Bridget Read  April 5, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Red Parts

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 5, 2016
    Essay

    Confessions of a Reluctant Memoirist

    By Lucas Mann  April 1, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Inventors

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  April 1, 2016
    Essay

    From a California Commune to New York City

    By Molly Prentiss  March 29, 2016
    Poets

    How I Met the Poet of Portsmouth

    By Katherine Towler  March 28, 2016
    Essay

    Hard Truth and Deep Trauma Behind Bars

    By Mira Ptacin  March 24, 2016
    Essay

    When the Apocalypse is Your Religion

    By Rachel Kessler  March 18, 2016
    Essay

    When Chris Offutt Lost His Virginity at a ComicCon

    By Chris Offutt  March 14, 2016
    What to Read

    30 Books in 30 Days: Karen Long on Elizabeth Alexander’s The Light of the World

    By Karen R. Long  March 9, 2016
    Memoir

    30 Books in 30 Days: Joanna Scutts on Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk

    By Joanna Scutts  March 8, 2016
    Memoir

    30 Books in 30 Days: Leigh Newman on Margo Jefferson’s Negroland

    By Leigh Newman  March 7, 2016
    Essay

    Susan Sontag Wants the Manager, Richard Hell Needs the Bathroom Key

    By Karen Lillis  March 4, 2016
    Excerpts

    Liar

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  March 3, 2016
    What to Read

    30 Books in 30 Days: Michael Miller on Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts

    By Michael Miller  March 2, 2016
    Criticism

    When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

    By Emily Harnett  February 17, 2016
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