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Diana Goetsch on How Elena Ferrante and Milan Kundera Helped Her Write a Memoir

Diana Goetsch on How Elena Ferrante and Milan Kundera Helped Her Write a Memoir

The Author of This Body I Wore on Trans Identity and Making Nonfiction Read Like Fiction

By Diana Goetsch | June 26, 2023

What Suitcases Taught Ana Menéndez About Art, Exile, and Poetry

What Suitcases Taught Ana Menéndez About Art, Exile, and Poetry

The Author of The Apartment on Learning to Trust In Our Destinations

By Ana Menéndez | June 26, 2023

R.K. Russell on Being Black and Bisexual in the National Football League

R.K. Russell on Being Black and Bisexual in the National Football League

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 26, 2023

Chasten Buttigieg on Writing the Book He Wished He’d Had Growing Up

Chasten Buttigieg on Writing the Book He Wished He’d Had Growing Up

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | June 23, 2023

Coming of Age in Central Florida’s Orange Groves

Coming of Age in Central Florida’s Orange Groves

Anne Hull Remembers Life Among the Orange Pickers in the 1960s

By Anne Hull | June 23, 2023

Borders and Rivers: On Language, Faith, and Family at the US/Mexico Border

Borders and Rivers: On Language, Faith, and Family at the US/Mexico Border

Alejandra Oliva Considers Divisions, Artificial and Natural

By Alejandra Oliva | June 22, 2023

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On Learning How to Live From Ralph Waldo Emerson

By Mark Matousek | June 22, 2023

On the Beauty and Art of Making a Watch

By Rebecca Struthers | June 22, 2023

Geena Rocero on Writing Horse Barbie to Process Her Transition

By Talk Easy | June 22, 2023

The Rituals of Death and Dying in Central Appalachia

The Rituals of Death and Dying in Central Appalachia

Stacy Jane Grover on the Quiet Shuffle of a Death Vigil

By Stacy Jane Grover | June 21, 2023

How Taylor Swift Saved My Writing

How Taylor Swift Saved My Writing

Ethan Joella on Finding Confidence as a Writer By Listening to Pop Music

By Ethan Joella | June 21, 2023

Seven Swims: Omar El Akkad Chronicles a Life In Water

Seven Swims: Omar El Akkad Chronicles a Life In Water

“The sense of drowning comes with a clarity of sorts: you get to know intimately, if only for a few seconds.”

By Omar El Akkad | June 16, 2023

Helen Ellis on Writing About People You Know (in a Nice Way).

Helen Ellis on Writing About People You Know (in a Nice Way).

“If you’ve told the same story three times this week, write that one.”

By Helen Ellis | June 16, 2023

How Writing About Climate Change Can Become a Form of Escapism

How Writing About Climate Change Can Become a Form of Escapism

Deborah Willis on the Existential Contradictions of Writing While Our Planet Is Imperiled

By Deborah Willis | June 15, 2023

A Short Childhood and a Long Depression with Luiz Schwarcz

A Short Childhood and a Long Depression with Luiz Schwarcz

In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | June 15, 2023

Snapshots of the End of Travel: On Trying to Enter a Personal No-Fly Zone

Snapshots of the End of Travel: On Trying to Enter a Personal No-Fly Zone

Amy Benson Wrestles With the Devastating Consequences of Air Travel

By Amy Benson | June 14, 2023

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