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Memoir
Kiki Petrosino on Race and Where “Brightness” Begins
Telling the Story of an Interracial Family
By
Kiki Petrosino
| August 10, 2022
Telling the Devastating Stories of Pre-Abortion Ireland
Bernadette Jiwa on Her Grandmother’s Death and the Need to Keep History Close
By
Bernadette Jiwa
| August 9, 2022
How One Writer’s Brush With Covid Temporarily Robbed Her Of Her Career
Alice Feiring on the Unsettling Prospect of Writing About Wine With No Sense of Smell
By
Alice Feiring
| August 9, 2022
Meeting Language at Its Most Elemental Place: Belinda Huijuan Tang on Re-Learning Chinese
“When we learn a new language, we may expand our notion about what truths can exist in the world.”
By
Belinda Huijuan Tang
| August 9, 2022
“Making It” in America: Vanessa Hua Addresses the Myth of the Model Minority
“Critiques of late-stage capitalism don’t address how people of color get pitted against each other.”
By
Vanessa Hua
| August 8, 2022
Tarek Abi Samra on Stealing Kant From a Bookstore
“It appealed to me because it was the perfect encapsulation of an image of myself I was consciously trying to fashion.”
By
Tarek Abi Samra, translated by Lina Mounzer
| August 8, 2022
Best Reviewed
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Will McGrath on Traveling Through Rural Maine With Young Children
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Will McGrath
| August 8, 2022
When Stories Aren’t Enough: How Do You Write About the War in Ukraine?
By
Katya Cengel
| August 8, 2022
Dollars, Cents, and Being Left With the Bill: Jillian Medoff on Breaking Up With Her Literary Agent
By
Jillian Medoff
| August 5, 2022
When Your Mother is a Hoarder: On the Pain of Loosening My Grip on a Family Secret
Emi Nietfeld Recalls the Difficult First Meeting Between Her Fiancé’s Family and Her Mother
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Emi Nietfeld
| August 5, 2022
A Name on a Line: Chrysta Bilton Tells the Story of Her Birth
With an Extremely Brief Appearance by Her Father
By
Chrysta Bilton
| August 5, 2022
The Novels We Wrote When We Were 17: Adam Langer on High School Rumors and Storytelling
Or, How the Memories of the Past Haunt the Stories of the Present
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Adam Langer
| August 4, 2022
Lynne Tillman on Watching a Mother’s Final Days
“Dying is inevitable, but estranged from anything you know.”
By
Lynne Tillman
| August 3, 2022
Meet-Cute: Susan Coll on Falling In Love with (and at) a Bookstore
And They All Lived Happily Ever After
By
Susan Coll
| August 3, 2022
If You Want to Ruin Bookstores for Yourself, Become a Writer
Jana Casale on Browsing Bookstores Before AND AFTER Debuting as a Novelist
By
Jana Casale
| August 3, 2022
Michelle Tea on Crossing the Threshold from Ambivalence to Wanting a Baby
In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on
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Thresholds
| August 3, 2022
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Why Fictional Detectives Should Have Friends (and Katie Siegel Is Sad If They Don't)
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Katie Siegel
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"a succession of nine quietly horrifying stories from a dystopian pastorally radiant England The novella…"