Fathers and Daughters

What My Father’s Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing

Emily J. Smith: “If my voice was anything, it was the shadow of his.”

 
By Emily J. Smith  January 3, 2025
Fathers and Daughters

Two Vietnams: Chronicling a Father and Daughter’s Shared Love For the Same Country

By Christina Vo  April 22, 2024
Fathers and Daughters

On Publishing My Memoir of Grief As My Father Lays Dying

By Kristine S. Ervin  March 27, 2024
Fathers and Daughters

Meals and Memories: Sheila Squillante on Writing to Remember Her Father

By Sheila Squillante  November 29, 2023
Fathers and Daughters

Katherine Angel on Valerie Solanas, Bad Dads, and the Literary Pleasures of Pure Rage

By Katherine Angel  July 7, 2022
Fathers and Daughters

On the 26-Year Search for a Photo
of My Father

By Anna Qu  August 6, 2021
Fathers and Daughters

Translating at the Blurred Edge of Memoir and Fiction

By K. E. Semmel  July 23, 2021
Fathers and Daughters

On Doing Everything Possible to Avoid Becoming a Lawyer (and Failing)

By Anna Dorn  May 10, 2021
Fathers and Daughters

From Burden to Bounty: How Empathy Can Shape Family Dynamics

By Sherry Turkle  March 12, 2021
Fathers and Daughters

In Search of a Black Odysseus: My Father’s Journey Home

By Maya Phillips  September 30, 2019
Fathers and Daughters

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
Her Father

By Jacquelyn Ardam  June 26, 2019
Fathers and Daughters

Kate Mulgrew on the Work of Waiting, in Acting and in Life

By Kate Mulgrew  May 22, 2019
Fathers and Daughters

Anjelica Huston on Finding Her Father in the Writing of Lillian Ross

By Anjelica Huston  May 3, 2019
Fathers and Daughters

T Kira Madden on Writing Into the Space of Her Father’s Absence

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 19, 2019

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