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Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

Snapshots of Life: Storytelling and Outlaw Culture in Eastern Kentucky

Bobi Conn Explores Her Appalachian Family’s Long Tradition of Unreliable Narrators and Morally Gray Characters

By Bobi Conn | May 22, 2024

Drifters, Searchers and Observers: In Praise of Quietly Unlikable Women

Drifters, Searchers and Observers: In Praise of Quietly Unlikable Women

Mesha Maren on the Sisters of Longing Who Inspire Her Work

By Mesha Maren | May 21, 2024

Jessie Gaynor on Rereading <em>The Corrections</em> While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s

Jessie Gaynor on Rereading The Corrections While Navigating Her Mother’s Parkinson’s

“The book is the same every time, but I am different, so what it offers me is different.”

By Jessie Gaynor | May 21, 2024

What Pearl S. Buck’s Memoir Can Teach Parents of Disabled Children

What Pearl S. Buck’s Memoir Can Teach Parents of Disabled Children

Emily C. Bloom on the Impact and Legacy of “The Child Who Never Grew”

By Emily C. Bloom | May 20, 2024

The Poetry of Chinese Names

The Poetry of Chinese Names

Wendy Chen on Generation Poems and the Stories Hidden in Names

By Wendy Chen | May 20, 2024

Clocks, Cameras, Cracked Doll Faces: The Confessions of a Serial Collector

Clocks, Cameras, Cracked Doll Faces: The Confessions of a Serial Collector

Nancy Miller Gomez on the Origins and Evolution of an Obsession

By Nancy Miller Gomez | May 20, 2024

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My Mother Will Live Forever in the Stories of Alice Munro

By Jonny Diamond | May 16, 2024

A bunch of fake Kathleen Hanna biographies were released on the same day as her new memoir.

By Brittany Allen | May 15, 2024

What Freudian Psychoanalysis Gets Wrong About Trans Identity

By Jennifer Finney Boylan | May 15, 2024

Kiyo Sato on Japanese American Incarceration’s Language of Dehumanization

Kiyo Sato on Japanese American Incarceration’s Language of Dehumanization

“Here’s the truth: I am now called a non-alien, stripped of my constitutional rights.”

By Kiyo Sato | May 15, 2024

Lilly Dancyger on How to Support a Friend Through Grief

Lilly Dancyger on How to Support a Friend Through Grief

“Remember that there’s nothing you can say to make it better. Say only that you’re so sorry, so so sorry.”

By Lilly Dancyger | May 14, 2024

How Annie Ernaux Inspired Me to Tell My Own Abortion Story

How Annie Ernaux Inspired Me to Tell My Own Abortion Story

Colombe Schneck on Writing Against Shame and Solitude

By Colombe Schneck | May 14, 2024

What Happens When You Read Your Mother’s X-Rated Novel

What Happens When You Read Your Mother’s X-Rated Novel

Kate Feiffer on Female-Authored Erotica As a Form of Social Critique

By Kate Feiffer | May 13, 2024

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

Continual Self-Revision: Bee Sacks on Coming Out As a Nonbinary Author

“I have become a text that revises themself, that will revise themself every day, every day until the last day.”

By Bee Sacks | May 13, 2024

Alice McDermott’s Writing Mantra:<br> “Ah, Fuck Em.”

Alice McDermott’s Writing Mantra:
“Ah, Fuck Em.”

From Her One Story Literary Debutante Ball Address

By Alice McDermott | May 10, 2024

The Breasts Make the Woman... Or Do They? On Having (and Losing) a Pair

The Breasts Make the Woman... Or Do They? On Having (and Losing) a Pair

Sarah Thornton Explores Body Dysmorphia After a Double Mastectomy

By Sarah Thornton | May 10, 2024

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