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What It Took to Finally Write Honestly About My Mental Illness

What It Took to Finally Write Honestly About My Mental Illness

Joanne Greenberg on Claiming Her Name and Her Story

By Joanne Greenberg | May 5, 2022

The Girl Who Left, The Woman Who Stayed: Finding Georgia O’Keeffe in a Small Southern Town

The Girl Who Left, The Woman Who Stayed: Finding Georgia O’Keeffe in a Small Southern Town

Megan Mayhew Bergman on Where We Find Our Home

By Megan Mayhew Bergman | May 4, 2022

Parenting 101: Does “Because I Said So” Ever Really Work?

Parenting 101: Does “Because I Said So” Ever Really Work?

Scott Hershovitz on Figuring Out Power and Authority with Kids

By Scott Hershovitz | May 4, 2022

Memoirs with Benefits: A Reading List of Hybrid Narratives

Memoirs with Benefits: A Reading List of Hybrid Narratives

Courtney Maum Recommends Memoirs That Seesaw from Past to Present, Personal to Universal

By Courtney Maum | May 4, 2022

Searching for the Ghosts of My Father’s Life in Hungary

Searching for the Ghosts of My Father’s Life in Hungary

Karen Winn on Traveling Overseas to Find the Parent She Had Lost

By Karen Winn | May 4, 2022

Why Queer Stories Deserve Happy Endings

Why Queer Stories Deserve Happy Endings

Susie Dumond on Positive Role Models

By Susie Dumond | May 4, 2022

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Steve Almond on Writing as a Means of Dealing With Obsession

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Robert M. Pirsig on the Book He Wrote (And the One He Didn’t)

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Taking the “Ick” Out of “Sick Lit.” A Reading List

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Lillie Lainoff on Representing Chronic Illness in Literature

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How to Write a Pain Book

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For Lisa Levy Illness Is Easy, Pain Is Hard

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