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On Romanizing Korean Names and Writing Immigrant Stories in an Acquired Language

On Romanizing Korean Names and Writing Immigrant Stories in an Acquired Language

Yoon Choi Navigates the Complicated Path to Publication

By Yoon Choi | August 18, 2021

Deesha Philyaw on Leaving a Marriage While Writing a Short Story Collection

Deesha Philyaw on Leaving a Marriage While Writing a Short Story Collection

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | August 18, 2021

My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

Andrew Palmer Struggles with the Idea of Creating Characters (Partly) Based on an Ex

By Andrew Palmer | August 17, 2021

Smoking Dope and Comparing Bad Reviews: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Discuss the Early Days of Their Collaboration

Smoking Dope and Comparing Bad Reviews: Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine Discuss the Early Days of Their Collaboration

On the Beginnings of the Iconic Musical Sunday in the Park with George

By James Lapine | August 16, 2021

The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer

The Loneliness of the Full-Time Writer

Mike Gayle Tries to Find Community in a Solitary Profession

By Mike Gayle | August 13, 2021

Marc Ribot Makes the Case for Loud Music

Marc Ribot Makes the Case for Loud Music

On the Necessary Pain and Pleasure of Deafening Amplification

By Marc Ribot | August 13, 2021

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Aching for the American Dream: On Writing the Delicate Stories of Immigrant and Refugee Students

By Elly Fishman | August 12, 2021

What The (Dixie) Chicks Meant to Me As a Teenager in Namibia

By Rémy Ngamije | August 12, 2021

How to Say Goodbye: Cecily Strong’s Eulogy For Her Beloved Cousin Owen

By Cecily Strong | August 11, 2021

Women’s Memoirs at the Intersection of Chronic Illness, Mental Illness, Addiction, and Trauma

Women’s Memoirs at the Intersection of Chronic Illness, Mental Illness, Addiction, and Trauma

Eleanor Henderson Recommends Work by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Sarah Manguso, and More

By Eleanor Henderson | August 11, 2021

Thereness on the Outer Banks: On Landscape in Literature

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Angel Khoury Considers What It Means to Evoke a Place

By Angel Khoury | August 11, 2021

What is This Music? “Drill Isn’t a Genre, It’s an Aesthetic Stance.”

What is This Music? “Drill Isn’t a Genre, It’s an Aesthetic Stance.”

Kit Mackintosh Goes Deep into the Sub-Culture of Brooklyn Drill

By Kit Mackintosh | August 11, 2021

Rebel Without a Real Cause: On Surviving the Social Hierarchies of High School

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Via Bleidner Considers Coming-of-Age in California and the Addictive Validation of Clout

By Via Bleidner | August 10, 2021

The Painful Cost of the Writing Life

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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

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