inheritance

Finding My Literary Style (with a Little Help From My Mother)

Kelly Sather on the Stories Clothes Can Tell

 
By Kelly Sather  October 28, 2024
On Home

Imagining Home: On Family, Place and Inheritance in South Asia and North America

By Sadiya Ansari  August 14, 2024
Migration

Imaginary Homelands: Lauren Markham Returns to Ancestral Landscapes for the Very First Time

By Lauren Markham  February 13, 2024
Family Histories

Julie Otsuka on Writing From and Into Memories

By Julie Otsuka  August 8, 2023
Keen On

How a White Racist “Totalitarian” System Permeates American History and Why Reparations Might Be the Only Fix

By Keen On  June 30, 2022
Behind the Mic

Inheritance by Elizabeth Acevedo, Read by the Author

By Behind the Mic   May 24, 2022
Southern literature

On the Unbearable Whiteness of Mainstream, Canonical Southern Literature 

By Anjali Enjeti  June 28, 2021
Poetry

“Virginia Slim”

By Taylor Johnson  December 18, 2020
Short Stories

Mimi Lok on Writing in (and For) the Margins

By Dave Eggers  November 6, 2019
Memoir

Dani Shapiro on the Disequilibrium of a Life-Changing Moment

By But That's Another Story  July 30, 2019
The Hub

Dani Shapiro’s bestselling memoir Inheritance to be adapted into a film

By Emily Temple  July 3, 2019
Family History

Dani Shapiro on Unraveling Her Family’s History

By Michele Filgate  May 16, 2019
Excerpts

Dani Shapiro: Did My Parents Even Know?

By Dani Shapiro  January 23, 2019
What to Read

13 Books You Should Read This January

By Literary Hub  January 2, 2019
Essay

Transcendent Compositions: On Making Perfume and Writing Fiction

By TANAÏS   May 11, 2018
Essay

Why I Don’t Write About the Women in My Family

By Pola Oloixarac  April 16, 2018

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