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The Journey of a Madwoman: Between Facts, Memory, and a Fractured Self

The Journey of a Madwoman: Between Facts, Memory, and a Fractured Self

Suzanne Scanlon on Remembering and Returning to a Disappearing Past

By Suzanne Scanlon | April 18, 2024

Facing That Which Haunts You: Ethel Rohan on Writing About Grief

Facing That Which Haunts You: Ethel Rohan on Writing About Grief

“For most of my life, I’ve suffered in shame and silence while the men who hurt me got away scot-free.”

By Ethel Rohan | April 18, 2024

The Money Diaries: Real Writers, Real Budgets

The Money Diaries: Real Writers, Real Budgets

What Writers Spend in a Week of Their Lives

By Literary Hub | April 17, 2024

In Service: Writers on Making Ends Meet in the Service Industry

In Service: Writers on Making Ends Meet in the Service Industry

“It’s easy to remain clueless about how the world works for most people.”

By Literary Hub | April 17, 2024

Creativity and Cuervo: On Growing Up in My Family’s Liquor Store

Creativity and Cuervo: On Growing Up in My Family’s Liquor Store

From Eddie Ahn’s Graphic Memoir “Advocate”

By Eddie Ahn | April 17, 2024

Thriving in Discomfort: SJ Kim on Writing About and Through Displacement

Thriving in Discomfort: SJ Kim on Writing About and Through Displacement

“Writing can reassure and writing can upset, writing can disrupt.”

By SJ Kim | April 17, 2024

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Revisiting Pilobolus: On Finding Community in Dance

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Tide In, Tide Out: Anne Lamott on Growing Old and Making Peace with Death

Tide In, Tide Out: Anne Lamott on Growing Old and Making Peace with Death

“My father’s death feels like it was twenty years ago but it was more than forty-five.”

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How Dyslexia Made Me More Passionate About Reading (and Selling) Books

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Cappy Yarbrough on Her Complicated Relationship with Books, Working at a Bookstore, and Dealing with a Wild Range of Customers

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Shock, Awe, and Fun: How David Jones Became David Bowie

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Suzi Ronson on Witnessing the Rise of a Rock Icon

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Who Are You? Identity, the Self, and Their Many Multiples

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Mairead Small Staid Considers What It Means to Not Recognize Ourselves and the Ones We Love

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On the Time the Iron Sheik Threatened to Kill Me

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Brad Balukjian on Falling in Love with Professional Wrestling, Kayfabe, and Fact-Checking an Angry Childhood Hero

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“Something More Bare and More Raw Than a Man.” Constance Debré on Learning to Love Women

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When You Abandon Your Marriage, Your Career, and Your Bourgeois Parisian Life

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