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Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
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Beyond the Page
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Memoir
Here's what's making us happy
this
week.
By
Brittany Allen
| September 5, 2025
Failing Better: On The Tennis Player and The Writer
Thomas Swick Examines the Parallels Between Two Joyous (and Thankless) Vocations
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Thomas Swick
| September 5, 2025
Holding Tight: When to Fall and When to Keep Climbing
Emily Meg Weinstein on Rock Climbing and Saving Herself
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Emily Meg Weinstein
| September 5, 2025
Lalla Romano Was Writing Autofiction Before It Existed
On the Late Italian Writer’s Masterpiece, “In Farthest Seas”
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Brian Robert Moore
| September 5, 2025
On Not Writing, and Letting Wildness Be Your Guide
Leila Chatti Wrestles With the Daily Idea of Being a Writer
By
Leila Chatti
| September 5, 2025
How Writing in Community Can Forge Friendships and Evoke Change
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Beverly Gologorsky
| September 5, 2025
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Miriam Toews on Grief, Guilt, and Memory
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The Necessity of Return: On Years of Ritual Killings in Nigeria
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Carlo Rotella
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“A maligned Muslim people, abandoned by their brothers and dehumanized by the West...”
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Five Books With Narrators Learning to Live in Unexpected Lives
Kelly Sundberg Recommends Titles to Read for Your New Life
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Kelly Sundberg
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A "close" read of the president's beach reads.
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Amanda Uhle on Using a Childhood Photo as the Cover of Her Book
“All I ever wanted was an accurate portrait of who my parents were.”
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Amanda Uhle
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Polly Atkin Consider the Danger of Publishers Endorsing Quackery
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Polly Atkin
| August 26, 2025
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