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How to Write a Memoir When You're Sick With Cancer

How to Write a Memoir When You're Sick With Cancer

Dan O'Brien on Cancer and Honesty

By Dan O'Brien | October 11, 2023

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

Insomnia, Imposter Syndrome, and All the Ways I Learned to Write My Book

"In order to tell the truth out loud, on the page, I needed to learn to be compassionate with myself"

By Rebecca Clarren | October 11, 2023

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

Alexandra Dos Santos on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

By Alexandra Dos Santos | October 11, 2023

McKenzie Wark Writes a Letter to Her Younger Self

McKenzie Wark Writes a Letter to Her Younger Self

On Love and Money, Sex and Death in Australia

By McKenzie Wark | October 9, 2023

A Crisis of Faith: Pauls Toutonghi on Finding Purpose in Creativity

A Crisis of Faith: Pauls Toutonghi on Finding Purpose in Creativity

"I had created something—something that I’d honestly thought of as maybe a little brilliant but also maybe a little crazy."

By Pauls Toutonghi | October 5, 2023

On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

On the Difficulty of Narrating the Audiobook for Your Own Memoir

Freda Love Smith Admits, "It's Kind of Hard to Read"

By Freda Love Smith | October 4, 2023

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Nathan Hill on the Biggest Surprise of His Literary Career

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Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

Maternal Vertigo: Molly Lynch on Chaos, Childcare, and Civilizational Collapse

"At the very moment that you take on the greatest act of caring, you discover how powerless you are."

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All Stories Float Ashore: Fae Myenne Ng on the Chinese Titanic Poet-Sailor Deportee

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"Men of Exclusion held truth close, sailing like the wind into a port of safety."

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Their Own Promised Land: Halle Hill on Good Women and the Spirituality of Girlhood

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"Faith gave the women around me strengths and simultaneous burdens."

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The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

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"They show a broader human urge to understand the bodies we live in, especially when they falter."

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"Your Meals In Life Are Numbered:" On Trying (and Failing) in Hollywood

Terrell Tannen Remembers His Friend, Novelist Jim Harrison

By Terrell Tannen | September 15, 2023

James Frankie Thomas on Discovering His Trans Identity While Writing Fiction

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Navied Mahdavian on Confronting Environmental Degredation in the American West

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