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On Reading My Memoir to My Father

On Reading My Memoir to My Father

Séamas O'Reilly Pays Tribute to the Man Who Taught Him to Love Books

By Séamas O'Reilly | June 7, 2022

WATCH: Rachel Howzell Hall on Why Crime Captures Every Genre of Writing

WATCH: Rachel Howzell Hall on Why Crime Captures Every Genre of Writing

This Week on Our Video Series Authors in the Tent, Hosted by Ona Russell

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 7, 2022

Why India, and Not China or the US, Represents the Most Chilling Vision of Our High-Tech Dystopian Future

Why India, and Not China or the US, Represents the Most Chilling Vision of Our High-Tech Dystopian Future

Samit Basu in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 7, 2022

How to Write a Memoir About Personal Catastrophe Without Sounding Pitiful

How to Write a Memoir About Personal Catastrophe Without Sounding Pitiful

Abi Morgan in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 7, 2022

<em>We Were Dreamers</em> by Simu Liu, Read by the Author

We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu, Read by the Author

Discover the Marvel Actor’s Story

By Behind the Mic | June 7, 2022

Karen Hofmann on Building an Accessible, Affordable, and Inclusive Education

Karen Hofmann on Building an Accessible, Affordable, and Inclusive Education

From the ArtCenter College of Design’s Bi-Weekly Podcast

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Here are the books Bill Gates thinks you should be reading this summer.

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A new community-oriented bookstore has opened on the Lower East Side.

By Katie Yee | June 6, 2022

Here are the guest editors for the Best American Series 2022.

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Lite-Brite Times Square: Heather O’Neill on Writing and Mothering at the (Exact) Same Time

Lite-Brite Times Square: Heather O’Neill on Writing and Mothering at the (Exact) Same Time

“Whereas I might have wished for fellow intellectuals, I instead had a very little girl.”

By Heather O'Neill | June 6, 2022

Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness

Elegy for Minor Poets: Writing on the Margins of Midcentury Greatness

Jen DeGregorio Investigates the Literary Lives of David Omer Bearden and Alan Bätjer Russo

By Jen DeGregorio | June 6, 2022

Questioning the Borders of Nonfiction to Tell the Story of an Exceptional Life

Questioning the Borders of Nonfiction to Tell the Story of an Exceptional Life

Levi Vonk on All God's Dangers and the Power of Collaborative Oral History

By Levi Vonk | June 6, 2022

Tiny Beautiful Things: Why Deborah Way Launched a Mini-Memoir Project on Instagram

Tiny Beautiful Things: Why Deborah Way Launched a Mini-Memoir Project on Instagram

How an Obsession with Mementos Grew Into a Storytelling Community

By Deborah Way | June 6, 2022

Madhushree Ghosh: How Cooking Helped Me Build a New Home

Madhushree Ghosh: How Cooking Helped Me Build a New Home

“What am I choosing to remember?”

By Madhushree Ghosh | June 6, 2022

Lars Horn on the Intimate History Between Skin and Ink

Lars Horn on the Intimate History Between Skin and Ink

“To write was, and still is, in some sense, to tattoo, to ink script upon skin.”

By Lars Horn | June 6, 2022

Making Meat Jun, Facing History: Flattening Korean Tradition in Hawaiʻi

Making Meat Jun, Facing History: Flattening Korean Tradition in Hawaiʻi

Joseph Han on the Militarized History Behind a Favorite Food

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