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The Suicide Memoir: True Crime, Mystery, and Grief

The Suicide Memoir: True Crime, Mystery, and Grief

A Brief Look at a Dark Genre

By Candace Opper | May 20, 2016

Jenny Diski, Down the Final Rabbit Hole

Jenny Diski, Down the Final Rabbit Hole

On a Body of Work That Ends Without Ending

By Bridget Read | May 16, 2016

When Two Feminists of Color Fall in Love

When Two Feminists of Color Fall in Love

Ana Castillo on Validation, Rivalry, and Other Women

By Ana Castillo | May 13, 2016

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

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

Garrard Conley: "I wrote and rewrote again. I wrote in doubt and fear."

By Garrard Conley | May 11, 2016

My Father the Song Poet

My Father the Song Poet

Kao Kalia Yang Comes To Understand Her Machinist Father as a Literary Force

By Kao Kalia Yang | April 25, 2016

Mitchell S. Jackson's <em>The Residue Years</em>, Part One

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

Premiering the Story of One Writer's Path from Prison to Publication

By Literary Hub | April 19, 2016

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