What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

What Can an Essayist Do in the Face of Massive Tragedy?

Sonya Bilocerkowycz on Guilt, Ego, and Speculative Nonfiction

By Sonya Bilocerkowycz | January 9, 2020

What Lotería Means to Me—And My Writing

What Lotería Means to Me—And My Writing

Yvette Benavides on a Childhood Source of Identity,
Freedom, and Creativity

By Yvette Benavides | January 8, 2020

On the Strange Connection Between Brain Damage and Sex Drive

On the Strange Connection Between Brain Damage and Sex Drive

Sarah Vallance Learns to Navigate a Post-Traumatic Life of Desire

By Sarah Vallance | January 6, 2020

Eating Squirrels, Fearing Tigers, and Avoiding the Wrath of Spirits

Eating Squirrels, Fearing Tigers, and Avoiding the Wrath of Spirits

Lisa Lee Herrick Traces Her Ancestry, the Hmong People, from Laos to America

By Lisa Lee Herrick | December 20, 2019

The Difficulty of Making Close Friends As You Get Older

The Difficulty of Making Close Friends As You Get Older

Lane Moore on the Anxieties of Grown-Up Loneliness

By Lane Moore | December 19, 2019

When Your Family Figures Out You're a Writer... and Loves You For It

When Your Family Figures Out You're a Writer... and Loves You For It

Melissa Woods on the Unlikely Intersections of
Child-Rearing and Novel-Writing

By Melissa M. Woods | December 19, 2019

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When You Find Out Someone Won a Prize Plagiarizing Your Work

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Confessions of an Undercover Novelist

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Abigail Hing Wen on Difficult Family Conversations

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Rereading the Master of<br> 'Dying Teen' Lit

Rereading the Master of
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Katy Hershberger Considers Lurlene McDaniel and the
Allure of a Problematic Genre

By Katy Hershberger | December 12, 2019

On the Trail With the Vlogging<br> Teens of America

On the Trail With the Vlogging
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Mark Kenyon Finds Some Surprising Moments of Connection

By Mark Kenyon | December 12, 2019

Body Language: On Kylie Minogue, Cancer, and Coming Back to Life

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Oliver Reeson: "To be diagnosed at 21 is the same as being diagnosed as a celebrity."

By Oliver Reeson | December 11, 2019

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From the Diaries of Helen Garner: The Trials of
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Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop

Bohumil Hrabal, the Writing Machine Who Couldn't Stop

The Czech Writer Remembers What It Was to
Fall in Love with Literature

By Bohumil Hrabal | December 6, 2019

How Journalism Made a <br>Poet Out of Me

How Journalism Made a
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Gillian Conoley on Objectivity, Reportage, and Truth

By Gillian Conoley | December 6, 2019

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