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How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

How the Beloved Memory of Dead Pets Can Help Guide the Writing Process

Simon Van Booy on Letting Go and Following the Story Wherever It Takes Him

By Simon Van Booy | May 9, 2024

Why You Should Keep a Garden Journal (Even if You Don’t Have a Garden)

Why You Should Keep a Garden Journal (Even if You Don’t Have a Garden)

Fiona Warnick on the Question of What Is Worth Documenting

By Fiona Warnick | May 9, 2024

How Pregnancy Forever Transforms the Body and the Mind

How Pregnancy Forever Transforms the Body and the Mind

Lucy Jones on the Eternal Biological Bonds Between Mothers and Children

By Lucy Jones | May 9, 2024

Remembering My Friend and Agent, Richard Parks

Remembering My Friend and Agent, Richard Parks

“You never know what you will get till you try.”

By Elizabeth Graver | May 8, 2024

A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life

A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life

Heidi Reimer: “A mother is also a daughter. A daughter may eventually become a mother. Then, forever, she is both."

By Heidi Reimer | May 6, 2024

More Than Just Hair: Thinking About Shiva’s Dreadlocks and Black Bodily Integrity

More Than Just Hair: Thinking About Shiva’s Dreadlocks and Black Bodily Integrity

Nina Sharma Navigates Anti-Blackness Within Her Indian-American Family

By Nina Sharma | May 6, 2024

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Khadijah Queen on the Value of Intimacy and Self-Care for Someone on the Asexual Spectrum

By Khadijah Queen | May 2, 2024

Hero of a Cult of One: On Loving Cormac McCarthy’s Early Work

By Jason K. Friedman | May 1, 2024

Tackling Ballet’s History of Anti-Blackness as a White Woman

Tackling Ballet’s History of Anti-Blackness as a White Woman

Karen Valby: “It is not my job to be a white woman beyond reproach—some mythical anti-Karen that doesn’t even exist.”

By Karen Valby | April 30, 2024

Closing the Literary Circle: Marc Berley on Editing the Work of Gordon Lish

Closing the Literary Circle: Marc Berley on Editing the Work of Gordon Lish

"No one, I learned, appreciates the care and effort of an editor more than Lish."

By Marc Berley | April 29, 2024

How Novelist Lynne Reid Banks Helped Me See Myself—and the World

How Novelist Lynne Reid Banks Helped Me See Myself—and the World

Aaron Hicklin: “I yearned for a bigger life and was sure it would come for me.”

By Aaron Hicklin | April 26, 2024

When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

When Writing Your Novel (Maybe) Manifests Your Breakup

Hazel Hayes on Seeing Her Characters’ Relationship Problems Mirror Her Own

By Hazel Hayes | April 24, 2024

The Creators of a Bicycle-Powered Library Reflect on Its Humble Beginnings

The Creators of a Bicycle-Powered Library Reflect on Its Humble Beginnings

Laura Moulton and Ben Hodgson on Bringing Books to Underserved Communities

By Laura Moulton and Ben Hodgson | April 24, 2024

Sad about Pitchfork? Try one of these classic collections of music writing.

Sad about Pitchfork? Try one of these classic collections of music writing.

By Brittany Allen | April 23, 2024

Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

Torn Dresses, Frank Sinatra, Ghosts in the Loo: Judi Dench on a Lifetime of Playing Shakespeare

Judi Dench and the Actor and Director Brendan O'Hea in Conversation from Their New Book "Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent"

By Literary Hub | April 23, 2024

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