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The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

James Tate Hill on the Hard Realities of Balancing the Personal and the Creative

By James Tate Hill | August 9, 2021

On Reframing and Overcoming the Bodily Colonization of Stage 4 Cancer

On Reframing and Overcoming the Bodily Colonization of Stage 4 Cancer

Fred D'Aguiar Considers the Meaning of Liberation in the Face of a Life-Threatening Disease

By Fred D’Aguiar | August 9, 2021

The Medicine Memoirs That Every Aspiring Doctor Should Read

The Medicine Memoirs That Every Aspiring Doctor Should Read

Robert Meyer, MD, and Dan Koeppel on the Beauty and Brutality of the Human Experience

By Robert Meyer, MD, and Dan Koeppel | August 9, 2021

What Visiting Plantations Taught Me About Historical Erasure

What Visiting Plantations Taught Me About Historical Erasure

LaTanya McQueen on Piecing Together Her Family's Past

By LaTanya McQueen | August 9, 2021

On Loss, Time, and Hope: My Year of Reading Ali Smith’s <em>Seasonal Quartet</em>

On Loss, Time, and Hope: My Year of Reading Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet

Sara Batkie Reflects on the Past Year of COVID-19

By Sara Batkie | August 6, 2021

On the 26-Year Search for a Photo <br>of My Father

On the 26-Year Search for a Photo
of My Father

Anna Qu Grieves a Life She Never Knew

By Anna Qu | August 6, 2021

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Cree Turned City Slicker: Returning to One’s Indigenous Heritage

By Darrel J. McLeod | August 6, 2021

Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

By Larissa Pham | August 6, 2021

Compartmentalizing and Coping: Life as an Emergency Doctor During COVID

By Robert Meyer, MD, and Dan Koeppel | August 5, 2021

What We Ask of Women When Affordable Health Insurance Is Tied to Full-Time Work

What We Ask of Women When Affordable Health Insurance Is Tied to Full-Time Work

Deborah Copaken on the Fiery Exit Interview That Changed NBC's Work Culture

By Deborah Copaken | August 5, 2021

At 95 years young, Mel Brooks has finally written his memoir.

At 95 years young, Mel Brooks has finally written his memoir.

By Walker Caplan | August 4, 2021

“I Am the Last Nomad.” What It Means to Be the Sole Keeper of a Family’s Stories

“I Am the Last Nomad.” What It Means to Be the Sole Keeper of a Family’s Stories

Shugri Said Salh on the Transition from Her Nomadic Somali Childhood to Parenthood in California

By Shugri Said Salh | August 4, 2021

My Life Story, Someone Else’s Voice: Why I Won’t Be Narrating My Memoir’s Audiobook

My Life Story, Someone Else’s Voice: Why I Won’t Be Narrating My Memoir’s Audiobook

James Tate Hill on the Way We Listen to Contemporary Memoir

By James Tate Hill | August 3, 2021

Reading is a Political Encounter: On Violence, Language, and Selective Forgetting

Reading is a Political Encounter: On Violence, Language, and Selective Forgetting

Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Finds Lessons in History, From Tehran to Orange County

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi | August 3, 2021

Letter to an Unborn Child: How Could I Bring You Into a Collapsing World?

Letter to an Unborn Child: How Could I Bring You Into a Collapsing World?

Daniel Sherrell Navigates Love and Desperation in the Time of Climate Change

By Daniel Sherrell | August 3, 2021

Ruth Wariner Reads an Excerpt From <em>The Sound of Gravel</em>

Ruth Wariner Reads an Excerpt From The Sound of Gravel

On Storybound, Our Radio-Theater Podcast

By Storybound | August 3, 2021

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