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What I Write in My Journal is Just for Me (It is Not My Memoir)

What I Write in My Journal is Just for Me (It is Not My Memoir)

Jeanna Kadlec on Writing, Memory, and Trusting Yourself

By Jeanna Kadlec | October 28, 2022

Paul Newman on the “Lusty Time” He Had Filming <em>The Long, Hot Summer</em> with Joanne Woodward

Paul Newman on the “Lusty Time” He Had Filming The Long, Hot Summer with Joanne Woodward

“For us, the promise of everything was there from the beginning.”

By Paul Newman | October 28, 2022

When Awe Meets Narrative: On Chasing Local Folklore at the Edge of the Ocean

When Awe Meets Narrative: On Chasing Local Folklore at the Edge of the Ocean

In Which Emily Urquhart Explores Villain/Helper Tropes in a Small Maritime Town

By Emily Urquhart | October 28, 2022

How Booksellers Conspired to Create the Perfect Bookstore Marriage Proposal

How Booksellers Conspired to Create the Perfect Bookstore Marriage Proposal

From Northshire Bookstore in Manchester, Vermont

By Gordon Dossett | October 27, 2022

How Rock and Roll Came to Sioux Falls, South Dakota

How Rock and Roll Came to Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Patrick Lalley on the Rise and Fall of The Pomp Room

By Patrick Lalley | October 27, 2022

This Is Not a Drill: How to Go Into Lockdown in a School Library 

This Is Not a Drill: How to Go Into Lockdown in a School Library 

Jess deCourcy Hinds Describes an All Too Familiar Scene

By Jess deCourcy Hinds | October 26, 2022

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Darryl Pinckney on Working for the New York Review of Books and Navigating New York City’s Literary Scene as a Young Black Writer

By Darryl Pinckney | October 26, 2022

How My Novel Disappeared—And Why it Came Back

By Lucy Ferriss | October 26, 2022

Seeking a New Story: On Sobriety and the Stories We Tell About Ourselves

By Sara Martin | October 25, 2022

Andrew Bomback on Starting with Memoir and Ending with Cultural History

Andrew Bomback on Starting with Memoir and Ending with Cultural History

In Conversation with Alex Higley and Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | October 25, 2022

Sweet Yet Sinister: How the Stroller Embodies Parental Hopes and Fears

Sweet Yet Sinister: How the Stroller Embodies Parental Hopes and Fears

Amanda Parrish Morgan on Maternal Idealization and Inadequacy

By Amanda Parrish Morgan | October 24, 2022

A Dreamer of Worlds: Anna Badkhen Explores Ethiopa (and the Etymologies of Maps)

A Dreamer of Worlds: Anna Badkhen Explores Ethiopa (and the Etymologies of Maps)

“What each map always implies is the observer, you.”

By Anna Badkhen | October 24, 2022

Why Is Flying So Miserable These Days? And Was It Ever That Glamorous?

Why Is Flying So Miserable These Days? And Was It Ever That Glamorous?

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By Keen On | October 24, 2022

The Grief of Publishing a Book Without the Parent Who Inspired You

The Grief of Publishing a Book Without the Parent Who Inspired You

Monica Macansantos on the Words Her Father Awakened

By Monica Macansantos | October 24, 2022

Harold R. Johnson on How We Tell Our Own Stories

Harold R. Johnson on How We Tell Our Own Stories

“We are the stories we are told and we are the stories we tell ourselves.”

By Harold R. Johnson | October 24, 2022

Mary Karr on Navigating Memory While Writing Memoir

Mary Karr on Navigating Memory While Writing Memoir

“A single image can split open the hard seed of the past.”

By Mary Karr | October 21, 2022

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