• Memoir

    Friendship

    Why Middle-Aged Men Have Trouble Sustaining Friendships

    By Billy Baker  January 28, 2021
    Folk Music

    Voices of the People: On Folk Music as a Living Art Form

    By Ellen Harper  January 27, 2021
    Reading Lists

    22 Books That Helped Me Write the Story of My Transition

    By P. Carl  January 26, 2021
    Memoir

    How a Mother Leaves

    By Danielle Geller  January 26, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Heartbreak, Absence, and Falling in Love with The Great Gatsby

    By David Stuart MacLean  January 21, 2021
    Personal History

    André Aciman: On Yearning for the Not-Yet and What Could Have Been

    By André Aciman  January 21, 2021
    Book Origins

    I Watched a Baby Being Born So I Could Write My Book

    By Janice P. Nimura  January 20, 2021
    On Grief

    Resisting the Badge of ‘Resilience’ in the Wake of a Devastating Loss

    By Emily Rapp Black  January 20, 2021
    Politics

    Writing Through the Silences of a Lost Family History

    By Jonathan Lichtenstein  January 20, 2021
    The Literary Salon

    Remembering Deborah Orr with a Reading of Her Memoir, Motherwell

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  January 20, 2021
    Religion

    Conflagration and Catastrophe: On Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Doom of COVID-19

    By Daniel Allen Cox  January 19, 2021
    Family History

    Living That Van Life, Before It
    Was a Hashtag

    By Amanda Mei Kim  January 15, 2021
    Totalitarianism

    Trying to Teach English Literature in the Wake of Mao’s Cultural Revolution

    By Kim Echlin  January 15, 2021
    Reading Lists

    How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

    By Michael Leviton  January 15, 2021
    Writing Advice

    In Favor of Speed:
    Write Fast, Fix Later

    By Mateo Askaripour  January 14, 2021
    On Memoir

    On Putting the Most Vulnerable Parts of Yourself on the Page

    By Justine Cowan  January 14, 2021
    Reported Memoirs

    Trouble for Your Thoughts: On Reported Creative Nonfiction

    By Kenneth R. Rosen  January 13, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

    By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu  January 13, 2021
    On Race

    On Navigating the Intricacies of Race and the Violence of Antiblackness in America

    By Nadia Owusu  January 12, 2021
    Personal History

    Am I Argentine? On Identity, Tradition and Finding Ties to One’s Homeland

    By Daniel Loedel  January 12, 2021
    Storybound

    Paul Lisicky Performs an Excerpt from His Memoir Later

    By Storybound   January 12, 2021
    Book Origins

    On Imagining Gatsby
    Before Gatsby

    By Michael Farris Smith  January 11, 2021
    Trauma

    The Color Purple and the Language of Healing from Trauma

    By Salamishah Tillet  January 11, 2021
    Community

    The Deep Connection of West Virginia’s Indian Community

    By Neema Avashia  January 8, 2021
    Singing

    What It’s Like to Learn to Sing in Your Fifties

    By Tom Vanderbilt  January 8, 2021
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