• Memoir

    The Quarantine Tapes

    Kiese Laymon: Precious Writers Have Omission, Not Subtext

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 28, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Natasha Trethewey on Public Grief in Poetry and Memoir

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 23, 2020
    Aging

    Etel Adnan Contemplates Aging Amid the California Wildfires

    By Etel Adnan  December 23, 2020
    Family Histories

    Finding My Father Through His Relationship with Judaism

    By Deborah Tannen  December 22, 2020
    The West

    On the Solstice: Deep Winter Dreams of the Spring to Come

    By Rick Bass  December 21, 2020
    Poetry

    Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and
    Chicano Poetry

    By Lorna Dee Cervantes  December 21, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Darkness Before Dawn: Tales of a Pandemic Reopening

    By Andrés Felipe Solano  December 18, 2020
    Social Media

    TFW Your Twitter Account Gets Stolen and There’s Nothing You Can Do

    By Rob Spillman  December 17, 2020
    Abortion Rights

    Abortion is Already a Whisper-Network Procedure All Over America

    By Christa Parravani  December 17, 2020
    The Hub

    Penguin Random House and Jay-Z’s Roc Nation have launched a new imprint.

    By Rasheeda Saka  December 15, 2020
    Autofiction

    Six Book Critics Walk Into a Zoom to Talk About Autofiction

    By Marion Winik  December 14, 2020
    On Translation

    On Translating Poems While Riding the Metro in Rome

    By Damiano Abeni  December 14, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Diary of a Covid Year

    By Saroj Kunnakkat  December 11, 2020
    Graphic Memoir

    Valérie Plante on Her Way to Becoming Montreal’s (First Woman) Mayor

    By Valerie Plante and Delphie Cote-Lacroix  December 11, 2020
    Family History

    On Bourbon, Books, and Writing Your Way Out of Small-Town America

    By Wright Thompson  December 9, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    What Jeffrey Sterling Wants Americans to Understand About Whistleblowers

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 9, 2020
    Bounce Music

    The Bounce Song That Launched a Thousand Bounce Songs

    By Big Freedia  December 9, 2020
    Incarceration

    On Struggling with Drug Addiction and the System of Incarceration

    By Chris Dennis  December 9, 2020
    On Translation

    The Challenges of Translating Jean Daive’s Memoir 
    on Paul Celan

    By Robert Kaufman and Philip Gerard  December 9, 2020
    Dating

    Finding An Unlikely Literary Figure on Tinder: Kurt Vonnegut

    By Mikka Jacobsen  December 8, 2020
    Poetry

    Poet Sister Artist Comrade: In Celebration of Thulani Davis

    By Jessica Hagedorn  December 8, 2020
    Black Community

    Finding Black Community in the UK as a Black American Expatriate

    By Kenya Hunt  December 8, 2020
    Feminism

    Nicole Brossard on the Impossibility of Saying Everything

    By Nicole Brossard  December 8, 2020
    Indie Bookstores

    Why I Bought a Bookstore at 29

    By Samantha Ladwig  December 7, 2020
    Interview

    Tina Turner on the Lessons We Learn Overcoming Adversity

    By Literary Hub  December 7, 2020
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