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Eight Secrets About Sex From People I Know

Eight Secrets About Sex From People I Know

A writer Divulges what She's Not Supposed To Tell

By Claire Dederer | May 9, 2017

Culture vs. Nurture: When Family Hierarchy Informs Fiction

Culture vs. Nurture: When Family Hierarchy Informs Fiction

Randy Susan Meyers on the Journey from Brooklyn to Wall Street

By Randy Susan Meyers | May 8, 2017

My Mysterious Mother: Beauty Queen, Rebel Leader, National Icon

My Mysterious Mother: Beauty Queen, Rebel Leader, National Icon

Charmaine Craig on the Amazing Life and Times of Louisa Benson Craig

By Charmaine Craig | May 2, 2017

Violence, Brotherhood, and Life in the North Country

Violence, Brotherhood, and Life in the North Country

Zak Breckenridge on Coming to Terms with Family and Belonging

By Zak Breckenridge | April 28, 2017

Finding Unexpected Faith in the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit

Finding Unexpected Faith in the Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit

Elizabeth L. Silver on on the Kindness of Strangers

By Elizabeth L. Silver | April 25, 2017

Guesswork

Guesswork

Martha Cooley

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 25, 2017

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Life in North Memphis, and the Women Who Taught Me to Read

By Danielle Jackson | April 20, 2017

On Girls, Trump, and Everyone I Ever Dated Before My Husband

By Elizabeth Crane | April 19, 2017

Blowing Up Bungalows to Make Way For Airports

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How an Exile's Return to Iran Inspired a Novel

How an Exile's Return to Iran Inspired a Novel

Donia Bijan Visits Her Childhood Home

By Donia Bijan | April 14, 2017

Hourglass

Hourglass

Dani Shapiro

By Lit Hub Excerpts | April 14, 2017

Mourning My Grandfather through <em>The Velveteen Rabbit</em>

Mourning My Grandfather through The Velveteen Rabbit

"Oftentimes it hurts. But once you’re Real, you’re Real forever."

By Sarah Gerard | April 11, 2017

Surviving the Death of My Son, One Page at a Time

Surviving the Death of My Son, One Page at a Time

believe that life was worth living"">"I hated everyone who’d ever tried to make me
believe that life was worth living"

By Mark Lane | April 6, 2017

How Stevie Nicks and Elizabeth Bishop Helped Me Through Grief and Loss

How Stevie Nicks and Elizabeth Bishop Helped Me Through Grief and Loss

Brandon Taylor on How to Survive a Disaster

By Brandon Taylor | April 5, 2017

My Improbable, Irrational Mario Vargas Llosa Story

My Improbable, Irrational Mario Vargas Llosa Story

Juan Gabriel Vásquez on a Globe- and Decade-Spanning Coincidence

By Juan Gabriel Vásquez | April 4, 2017

Leaving the Village: Xiaolu Guo on a Traumatic Uprooting

Leaving the Village: Xiaolu Guo on a Traumatic Uprooting

"That place made me a hard person, a stoic and even merciless person"

By Xiaolu Guo | March 28, 2017

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