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Beyond the True-False Binary: How the Internet Helped Transform the Lyric Essay

Beyond the True-False Binary: How the Internet Helped Transform the Lyric Essay

Hugh Ryan on Truth and Post-Truth in Creative Nonfiction

By Hugh Ryan | September 6, 2023

Wang Xiaobo on the Limitless Mind of Italo Calvino

Wang Xiaobo on the Limitless Mind of Italo Calvino

“Literature has infinite potential. What could be wrong with that?”

By Wang Xiaobo | July 25, 2023

A Room Without a View: How to Create Space (and Time) for Creativity (on the Toilet)

A Room Without a View: How to Create Space (and Time) for Creativity (on the Toilet)

Daniel Wallace on His Father’s Writing Space

By Daniel Wallace | May 26, 2023

Writing From the Margins: On the Origins and Development of the Lyric Essay

Writing From the Margins: On the Origins and Development of the Lyric Essay

Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold Consider Essay Writing as Resistance

By Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold | April 10, 2023

The Transcendence of the Clock: On Finding Clarity in Fiction and in Life

The Transcendence of the Clock: On Finding Clarity in Fiction and in Life

Samuel Ligon Explores the Function of Time in Worlds Real and Imagined

By Samuel Ligon | March 13, 2023

“Thank God for the Nights That Go Right.” Adina Talve-Goodman on Illness, Wellness, and Luck

“Thank God for the Nights That Go Right.” Adina Talve-Goodman on Illness, Wellness, and Luck

Your Hearts, Your Scars">From Her Posthumously Published Essay Collection, Your Hearts, Your Scars

By Adina Talve-Goodman | January 30, 2023

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Lee Matalone Navigates the Tricky Realities of the Most Personal Histories

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What Lotería Means to Me—And My Writing

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Ordinary Girls: Jaquira Díaz on Growing Up in Miami Beach

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“We wanted to be seen, finally, to exist in the lives we’d mapped out for ourselves.”

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