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Finding Home by the Water, from the Mekong Delta to Coney Island

Finding Home by the Water, from the Mekong Delta to Coney Island

Ly Tran: “Water was always everywhere. And we accepted it. We exalted it. We prayed to it.”

By Ly Tran | June 10, 2021

Personal Space: Anjali Enjeti on Reckoning with Complicity, Shame, and Power Dynamics in Memoir

Personal Space: Anjali Enjeti on Reckoning with Complicity, Shame, and Power Dynamics in Memoir

The Author of Southbound Talks to Sari Botton

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 10, 2021

Reading Books About... People Reading Books?

Reading Books About... People Reading Books?

Alice Jolly Recommends Biblio-Memoirs by Nina Sankovitch, Andy Miller, Jenn Shapland, and More

By Alice Jolly | June 10, 2021

The Unexpected Pleasures of Being a Late Bloomer, in Motherhood and Writing

The Unexpected Pleasures of Being a Late Bloomer, in Motherhood and Writing

E.J. Levy on Writing Through Literary Vanity

By E.J. Levy | June 10, 2021

When a Thriller Feels More Personal to Write Than Your Own Memoir

When a Thriller Feels More Personal to Write Than Your Own Memoir

Paula McLain Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | June 10, 2021

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

Chasing a Waking Life: On the Pains of Being an Insomniac

Aminatta Forna Moves Through a Cultural and Personal History of Sleeplessness

By Aminatta Forna | June 9, 2021

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“My Life is Quite Gay.” A Queer Memoir Reading List

By John Paul Brammer | June 8, 2021

The Struggle with Mental Health Behind Bars

By Quntos KunQuest | June 8, 2021

Traversing the Most Dangerous Region of the Coast of Norway (On a Cruise Ship)

By Chaney Kwak | June 8, 2021

Audacity, Elegance, and the Vulgarity of Garlic: On My Dinner with Giorgio Armani

Audacity, Elegance, and the Vulgarity of Garlic: On My Dinner with Giorgio Armani

Alexander Lobrano Recounts an Eye-Opening Evening with the Exalted Fashion Designer

By Alexander Lobrano | June 7, 2021

On the Cultural Figure—and Lived Reality—of the Blind Writer

On the Cultural Figure—and Lived Reality—of the Blind Writer

M. Leona Godin Considers Homer, Borges, and the Large Gap Between Metaphorical and Practical

By M. Leona Godin | June 7, 2021

Resistance and Survival: Portraits of Black and Brown America, c. 2020

Resistance and Survival: Portraits of Black and Brown America, c. 2020

Mitchell S. Jackson on the Photography of Darryl DeAngelo Terrell, for The Longest Year: 2020+

By Mitchell S. Jackson and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell | June 4, 2021

The Existential Crisis Facing Newspapers Has Silenced Some of America’s Most Distressed Areas

The Existential Crisis Facing Newspapers Has Silenced Some of America’s Most Distressed Areas

Alan Maimon on Covering Eastern Kentucky in an Age of Hyperlocal News and Pageviews

By Alan Maimon | June 4, 2021

Together As We Burn: On a Complicated Maternal Bond and Intergenerational Love

Together As We Burn: On a Complicated Maternal Bond and Intergenerational Love

Ashley C. Ford Considers the Struggles of Her Mother and the Familial Ties That Bind

By Ashley C. Ford | June 3, 2021

Watch a young Flannery O’Connor teaching her chicken to walk backwards.

Watch a young Flannery O’Connor teaching her chicken to walk backwards.

By Walker Caplan | June 2, 2021

How <em>Mean Girls</em> Taught Me to Fear Lesbians and Love Pink

How Mean Girls Taught Me to Fear Lesbians and Love Pink

Grace Perry on Her High School Years, Catholicism, and the 2004 Teen Classic

By Grace Perry | June 2, 2021

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