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How I Wrote My Memoir, One Notecard at a Time

Or: How to Fit Your Trauma in a Recipe Box

 
By Melissa Stephenson  July 26, 2018
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Blown

By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 26, 2018
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On the Rise and Fall of America’s Most Famous Dessert

By Allie Rowbottom  July 25, 2018
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“Fast Fast Fast”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 25, 2018
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OK, Mr. Field

By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 24, 2018
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The Thing About Pig Heads

By Camas Davis  July 24, 2018
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Like Most Americans, I Was Raised to Be A White Man

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri  July 24, 2018
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Visiting a Secret Museum in the Middle of the Uzbek Desert

By Audrey Murray  July 24, 2018
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Ibtihaj Muhammad: Finding a Home in the (White) World of Fencing

By Ibtihaj Muhammad  July 24, 2018
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Everything You Think You Know About Chekhov is Wrong

By Boris Fishman  July 23, 2018
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“Model’s Assistant”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 20, 2018
Criticism

The Patron Saints of Pessimism: A Writer’s Pantheon

By Eugene Thacker  July 19, 2018
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“We Have A Gay Bar Here.” You Don’t Need A Coast to Be Cosmopolitan

By Greggor Mattson and Tory Sparks  July 19, 2018
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“How to Lose”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 19, 2018
Essay

Like a Miracle I Don’t Want: An Essay by Amy Fusselman

By Amy Fusselman  July 18, 2018
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The Mere Wife

By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 18, 2018
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From a Low and Quiet Sea

By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 17, 2018
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How Someone Else’s Writer’s Block Helped Me Write My Novel

By Robert Anthony Siegel  July 17, 2018
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What Can We Salvage of Objectivity?

By Michiko Kakutani  July 17, 2018
Biography

When Wilde Met Whitman

By Michèle Mendelssohn  July 16, 2018
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‘What is That? It’s Nothing.’ On the Unlikely Origins of Twitter

By Adam Fisher  July 16, 2018
Deep Dive

Forget Zorro: Joaquín Murieta is the Outlaw-Hero We Need

By Diana Gabaldon  July 16, 2018
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If Watergate Happened Now, It Would Stay a Secret

By Seymour M. Hersh  July 13, 2018
Deep Dive

We Need a New Mythic-Scale Story to Tell About Climate Change

By Adam Frank  July 13, 2018
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Early Work

By Lit Hub Excerpts  July 13, 2018
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