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Lynn Steger Strong on the Importance of Imaginative Truth in Fiction and Nonfiction
“The goal is not to tell the reader the facts as they happened, but to, hopefully, bring a bunch of sentences and paragraphs to imagistic life.”
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| April 7, 2025
A Strange and Uncomfortable Coupling: My Summer of Susan Faludi and Karl Ove Knausgaard
Lynn Steger Strong on the Power of the Narratives We Build Around Narratives
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| November 8, 2022
Navigating Broken Systems: Taylor Harris on Writing a Memoir of Medical Motherhood
Lynn Steger Strong in Conversation with Taylor Harris
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| January 10, 2022
Reckoning with Sentiment (and Writing the Unsaid) in a Novel About Motherhood
Lynn Steger Strong in Conversation with Jessica Winter
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| March 10, 2021
Neither of Us Likes Parties: Lynn Strong and Rumaan Alam in Conversation
Leave the World Behind
">On Family, Art, Work, and Alam's Latest Novel
Leave the World Behind
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| October 13, 2020
To Make Light From Pain: Mourning Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Lynn Steger Strong on the Death of an Unlikely Icon
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| September 21, 2020
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
How Did Elizabeth Wurtzel Survive Us?
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| January 9, 2020
What Not to Expect From a Grad School Workshop
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| September 6, 2019
The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| May 30, 2019
Luke Perry, Dylan McKay, and the Myth of the 'Bad Boy'
On Loving and Mourning an Illusion
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| March 8, 2019
The Privilege of Plotlessness
Lynn Steger Strong on Reading About Rich People While the World Burns
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| December 18, 2017
When Femininity is Code for Feelings
On Failure, Motherhood, and Flightless Birds
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| March 15, 2017
To Be A Mother, To Be A Writer
Lynn Steger Strong on seeking the life of The Writer
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| March 31, 2016
Who is Dora Myrl, Victorian Lady Detective?
October 22, 2025
by
Olivia Rutigliano
Dogs, Goats, Anteaters, Psychic Parrots: Cozy Mysteries Featuring Animals Other Than Cats
October 22, 2025
by
Allison Brook
Healing Homicides in One's Head: The Cathartic Experience of Writing Transgressive Characters
October 22, 2025
by
Lyn Liao Butler
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Might be the best craft book on writing you will ever read It s not…"
