• Memoir

    Excerpts

    So You’ve Come Out to Yourself as Genderqueer. What’s Next?

    By Jacob Tobia  March 8, 2019
    Essay

    Even After Writing My Novel, Shame Kept Me From Sharing My Story

    By Etaf Rum  March 5, 2019
    Essay

    Of Love, Madness, and Death: Notes Toward a Literary Autobiography

    By Amparo Dávila  March 4, 2019
    Excerpts

    Memories of an Atomic Childhood in Appalachia

    By Lindsey A. Freeman  March 1, 2019
    Excerpts

    To Sit Beside Boris Fishman on an Airplane is to Behold the Riches of Russian Cooking

    By Boris Fishman  February 26, 2019
    Essay

    Finding Cherokee America: Deciphering My Convoluted Family History

    By Margaret Verble  February 19, 2019
    Excerpts

    Ayelet Tsabari: How Food Connects Us to Home

    By Ayelet Tsabari  February 15, 2019
    Excerpts

    Notes on an Italian Getaway in Australia

    By Beppe Severgnini  February 13, 2019
    Essay

    Why I Was Finally Able to Write About My Husband

    By Judy Goldman  February 12, 2019
    Essay

    Can You Fail at Sisterhood?

    By Sophie MacKintosh  February 11, 2019
    Excerpts

    A Dream Job Too Good To Be True, a Story Too Weird to Believe

    By Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman  February 7, 2019
    Excerpts

    One Family’s Story of the Great Migration North

    By Bridgett M. Davis  January 30, 2019
    Excerpts

    Recipes and Wisdom from the Late, Great Ntozake Shange

    By Ntozake Shange  January 29, 2019
    Essay

    When the Sentimental Clutter in Your Life is a Whole Piano

    By Chris Cander  January 24, 2019
    Excerpts

    Dani Shapiro: Did My Parents Even Know?

    By Dani Shapiro  January 23, 2019
    Essay

    Into a Crueler America: Two Border Crossings, 30 Years Apart

    By Reyna Grande  January 14, 2019
    Essay

    How I Found Love One Literary Event at a Time

    By Tajja Isen  January 14, 2019
    Essay

    On the Excavation of My Desk

    By David L. Ulin  January 10, 2019
    Excerpts

    Gabriel García Márquez Remembers His Dearest Friend, Julio Cortázar

    By Gabriel García Márquez  January 8, 2019
    Essay

    Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

    By Honor Moore  January 3, 2019
    Excerpts

    Scholastique Mukasonga on the Power and Privilege in a Loaf of Bread

    By Scholastique Mukasonga  December 18, 2018
    Excerpts

    The Novelist Who Works as a “Seasonal Associate” at Amazon

    By Heike Geissler  December 10, 2018
    What to Read

    The Coming-of-Age Memoirs That Helped Me Write About My Life

    By Christine S. O'Brien  December 7, 2018
    Excerpts

    A Prose Poem by Chelene Knight

    By Chelene Knight  December 3, 2018
    Excerpts

    It’s Taken 40 Years For Me to Write About the Day My Brother Died

    By Richard Beard  November 26, 2018
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