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No Alternatives: On (Not) Choosing to Be a Mother in Rural America

No Alternatives: On (Not) Choosing to Be a Mother in Rural America

Monica Potts Ponders the Predestined Fates of Women in Small Town Arkansas

By Monica Potts | May 31, 2023

The Village Bookstore: Alba Donati on Returning to Her Rural Tuscan Roots

The Village Bookstore: Alba Donati on Returning to Her Rural Tuscan Roots

“Ideas don’t just spring out of nothing—they smolder, ferment, crowd our mind while we sleep.”

By Alba Donati | May 31, 2023

Saying Goodbye: Hannah Lillith Assadi on Brian Cox, Logan Roy, and Her Father

Saying Goodbye: Hannah Lillith Assadi on Brian Cox, Logan Roy, and Her Father

“Who am I going to laugh with now?”

By Hannah Lillith Assadi | May 26, 2023

Ana Veciana-Suarez on Writing Through Difficult Things and Re-imagining Cervantes

Ana Veciana-Suarez on Writing Through Difficult Things and Re-imagining Cervantes

This Week on The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | May 26, 2023

A Room Without a View: How to Create Space (and Time) for Creativity (on the Toilet)

A Room Without a View: How to Create Space (and Time) for Creativity (on the Toilet)

Daniel Wallace on His Father’s Writing Space

By Daniel Wallace | May 26, 2023

25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

25 Nonfiction Books You Need to Read This Summer

Because Novels Are Just Made-Up

By Literary Hub | May 25, 2023

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Author Susanna Kaysen Revisits Girl, Interrupted 30 Years After Its Publication

By Susanna Kaysen | May 23, 2023

Kwame Alexander on the Legacies of Love Passed Down Through Food

By Kwame Alexander | May 23, 2023

Time For a Change: Rachel Louise Snyder on the Beginning of the End of Her Family

By Rachel Louise Snyder | May 23, 2023

From This Day Backward: Avery Carpenter Forrey on Social Media and Memory

From This Day Backward: Avery Carpenter Forrey on Social Media and Memory

“If we can access memories with our thumbs, why bother accurately searing them into our brains?”

By Avery Carpenter Forrey | May 23, 2023

“That Was a Big Part of My Healing.” Kwame Alexander on Narrating His New Memoir

“That Was a Big Part of My Healing.” Kwame Alexander on Narrating His New Memoir

In Conversation with Jo Reed on Behind the Mic

By Behind the Mic | May 23, 2023

To Promote My Book, I Had To Get To Know My 25-Year-Old Self

To Promote My Book, I Had To Get To Know My 25-Year-Old Self

Casey Plett on the Distance Between Author-Selves, Ten Years Apart

By Casey Plett | May 22, 2023

“Smoking Ruins Were All Around Me.” On Experiencing Psychosis For the First Time

“Smoking Ruins Were All Around Me.” On Experiencing Psychosis For the First Time

Thomas Melle Experiences an Internal Earthquake

By Thomas Melle and Luise von Flotow | May 22, 2023

Gretchen Cherington on Investigating Toward Deeper Truths

Gretchen Cherington on Investigating Toward Deeper Truths

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | May 22, 2023

Samantha Irby Refuses to Organize Her Piles of Books

Samantha Irby Refuses to Organize Her Piles of Books

Also, She Would Still Be Scheduling Dog Surgeries If She Wasn't a Writer

By Literary Hub | May 19, 2023

Invisible Lives: Cassandra Jackson on Keeping and Discovering Family Secrets

Invisible Lives: Cassandra Jackson on Keeping and Discovering Family Secrets

“Though our loss is still hers, she has a profound loss that is all her own.”

By Cassandra Jackson | May 19, 2023

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