• Memoir

    Classic Literature

    Reading Tristram Shandy in an Age of Distraction

    By Sarah Moorhouse  January 30, 2023
    Chronic Illness

    “Thank God for the Nights That Go Right.” Adina Talve-Goodman on Illness, Wellness, and Luck

    By Adina Talve-Goodman  January 30, 2023
    Reality TV

    Living Inside the Simulation: Sheila Liming on Authenticity and Being on Reality TV

    By Sheila Liming  January 27, 2023
    Protest

    “No Veils, No Oppression!” Watching From a Distance As Women Fight for Freedom in Iran

    By Sahar Delijani  January 27, 2023
    Women’s Sports

    Compliance and Coachability: On the Problem at the Heart of Women’s Sports Culture

    By Lauren Fleshman  January 26, 2023
    The Hub

    When is a ghostwriter too famous to be a ghostwriter?

    By Jonny Diamond  January 25, 2023
    Librarians

    Kathryn Ma on Growing Up a Librarian’s Daughter

    By Kathryn Ma  January 25, 2023
    Agriculture

    Sheep Shearing in the 21st Century: Craft or Career?

    By Peggy Orenstein  January 24, 2023
    Modernism

    A Modernist’s Modernist: On the Brilliance—and Influence—of Katherine Mansfield

    By Kirsty Gunn  January 23, 2023
    When I’m Not Writing

    Hot, Cute, and a Little Bit Punk: Mina Seçkin on Exploring the World of Pokémon

    By Mina Seçkin  January 23, 2023
    Family History

    Writing Fiction Is a Way to Ensure My Ancestors’ Stories Are Remembered

    By Jamila Minnicks  January 23, 2023
    Conspiracy theories

    A Poisoned Reality: Jared Yates Sexton on Growing up with Conspiracy Theories and End-Times Prophecy

    By Jared Yates Sexton  January 20, 2023
    The Hub

    Is Prince Harry going to write THREE MORE BOOKS?!

    By Jonny Diamond  January 18, 2023
    Archives

    How Janet Malcolm Created Her Own Personal Archive

    By Eve Sneider  January 18, 2023
    Origin Stories

    Satyrs and Poets and Jazzmen and Muses: Anne Waldman on Life at Bennington in the Early 1960s

    By Anne Waldman  January 18, 2023
    Gun violence

    Paul Auster: Why Is America the Most Violent Country in the Western World?

    By Paul Auster  January 18, 2023
    Aging

    Dissolution Foretold: Neurosurgeon Henry Marsh on the Reality of His Own Diagnosis

    By Henry Marsh  January 17, 2023
    Marginalia

    How Leaning into Marginalia Helped Me Accept the Loss of Control That Comes with Publication

    By Josh Riedel  January 17, 2023
    Motherhood

    What Would It Mean to Really Make Space for Mother-Artists?

    By Janet Manley  January 13, 2023
    The Hub

    Despite leaks, Prince Harry’s memoir is the UK’s fastest selling nonfiction title ever.

    By Jonny Diamond  January 12, 2023
    When I’m Not Writing

    The Names of Things: Larissa Pham on Nature Walks and the Grammar of Animacy

    By Larissa Pham  January 12, 2023
    Singer Songwriters

    Singer-Songwriter Margo Price on Finding Truth and Joy in Writing a Memoir

    By Maggie Smith  January 12, 2023
    Most Anticipated

    Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2023

    By Literary Hub  January 12, 2023
    Just the Right Book

    How to Create Paul Newman’s Posthumous Memoir

    By Just the Right Book   January 12, 2023
    In Memoriam

    Russell Banks on the Time He Fled Bread Loaf with Nelson Algren

    By Adam Colman  January 11, 2023
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