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On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

Emily Usher Wants Stories That Show Crushes in All Their Messy, Authentic Glory

By Emily Usher | March 24, 2025

What T.S. Eliot’s Letters to Emily Hale Reveal About the Poet’s Romantic Past

What T.S. Eliot’s Letters to Emily Hale Reveal About the Poet’s Romantic Past

Sara Fitzgerald on Unrequited Love and a Recently Declassified Epistolary Correspondence

By Sara Fitzgerald | September 6, 2024

Why You Should Let Your Family Read Your Memoir in Advance

Why You Should Let Your Family Read Your Memoir in Advance

Lilly Dancyger on Navigating Hard (Subjective) Truths

By Lilly Dancyger | May 24, 2024

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In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | February 28, 2024

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Exclusive: See the cover for Lilly Dancyger's forthcoming essay collection, <em

First Love.">Exclusive: See the cover for Lilly Dancyger's forthcoming essay collection, First Love.

By Literary Hub | August 16, 2023

First Love

First Love

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By Lit Hub Excerpts | September 21, 2022

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First Love by Ivan Turgenev, Read by Edoardo Ballerini">First Love by Ivan Turgenev, Read by Edoardo Ballerini

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