• Memoir

    Excerpts

    Instrumental

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 15, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Time I Blasted My Father’s Ashes Into the Sky

    By Kris D’Agostino  February 13, 2017
    Personal Essay

    When Your Hometown is Crammed With Aspiring Writers

    By Kathleen Donohoe  February 10, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Confronting Death with an 8-Year-Old through Harry Potter

    By Kevin Wilson  February 8, 2017
    Personal Essay

    What Remains When Your First Language Fades Away

    By Alexandra Burt  February 7, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Men in My Life

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 3, 2017
    In Memoriam

    Frederic Tuten Remembers Harry Mathews

    By Frederic Tuten  February 3, 2017
    Excerpts

    The Brand New Catastrophe

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 2, 2017
    What to Read

    11 Memoirs by 20th-Century American Radicals

    By Dwyer Murphy  January 30, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Returning Home to the Ghosts of Budapest

    By Joseph Kertes  January 27, 2017
    Personal Essay

    The Weight of My Father’s Poems

    By Emily Ruskovich  January 20, 2017
    Personal Essay

    Mary Karr: Stop Asking Me About David Foster Wallace, Thanks

    By Emily Temple  January 18, 2017
    Excerpts

    Letters to a Young Muslim

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 5, 2017
    Excerpts

    Making Christmas Custard with Kathy Acker

    By Jeanette Winterson  December 23, 2016
    Excerpts

    Black Sunset: Hollywood Sex, Lies, Glamour, Betrayal, and Raging Egos

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 16, 2016
    Excerpts

    Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

    By Lit Hub Excerpts  December 15, 2016
    Personal Essay

    I Hate My Dogs (I Love My Dogs)

    By Claire Messud  December 14, 2016
    Personal Essay

    The Two Books That Saved My Young Life

    By Keah Brown  December 8, 2016
    Excerpts

    Trevor Noah on Growing Up in South Africa Under Apartheid

    By Trevor Noah  December 2, 2016
    News and Culture

    When Your Characters Live Inside Your Childhood Home

    By Sara Schaff  November 9, 2016
    Excerpts

    The Many Ways in Which the Heart Can Break

    By Aminatta Forna  November 8, 2016
    Essay

    Fascism and Its Echoes, and the Othering of the Mentally Ill

    By Holly Muller  November 7, 2016
    Essay

    The Novel My Wife Will Never Read

    By Eugene Mirabelli  November 4, 2016
    Excerpts

    How I Helped Tell a Soldier’s Story

    By Jane Bernstein  October 28, 2016
    Excerpts

    Stop Stereotyping Lexicographers!

    By John Simpson  October 24, 2016
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