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Marlon James: One Day I Will Write About My Mother

Marlon James: One Day I Will Write About My Mother

"My mother, who spent most of her life building work and family, never built a room of her own."

By Marlon James | February 4, 2019

How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

Two Writers Grieving for a Parent, a Century Apart

By Katharine Smyth | January 25, 2019

Sam Lipsyte on the Key to Writing:

Sam Lipsyte on the Key to Writing: "It All Has to Be the Good Part."

On Writer's Block, His Old Man Name, and Why Anyone Would Read Your Work

By Sam Lipsyte | January 17, 2019

Feed a Fever, Starve a Cold, but What Do We Do for Cancer?

Feed a Fever, Starve a Cold, but What Do We Do for Cancer?

When a Cook Confronts Her Mother's Illness

By Karen Babine | January 8, 2019

Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

"I will finish for good, I pledged, by the anniversary of her death."

By Honor Moore | January 3, 2019

Kiese Laymon: Surviving the Failures of Others

Kiese Laymon: Surviving the Failures of Others

Heavy in Conversation with Brandon Taylor">The Author of Heavy in Conversation with Brandon Taylor

By Brandon Taylor | November 27, 2018

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Elif Shafak on Ways of Knowing and the Women in Her Life

By Elif Shafak | October 17, 2018

All About My Mother: Brandon Taylor on Love, Rage, and Family

By Brandon Taylor | August 1, 2018

“I Spent the First 19 Years of my Life Defending my Virginity!”

By Hannah Pittard | June 5, 2018

On the Fear, Responsibility, and Boredom of Motherhood

On the Fear, Responsibility, and Boredom of Motherhood

Gabriela Wiener: Children Are Like Annoying Tourists

By Gabriela Wiener | May 11, 2018

The Burden of a Thousand Possible Lives: On Motherhood and Conflicting Desires

The Burden of a Thousand Possible Lives: On Motherhood and Conflicting Desires

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By Jennifer Schaffer | May 2, 2018

Music and My Father

Music and My Father

Gabrielle Bellot on Growing Up Between the Silence and the Sound

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 10, 2018

How Louisa May Alcott's Mother Encouraged Her Early Writing

How Louisa May Alcott's Mother Encouraged Her Early Writing

Abby May: A Woman Ahead of her Time and a Natural Storyteller

By Gardner McFall | March 23, 2018

Writing with Jack Kerouac, Ghost Father

Writing with Jack Kerouac, Ghost Father

Sarah Viren Contemplates Parenthood at the Kerouac House Residency

By Sarah Viren | March 20, 2018

John Banville: On the Undreamed Lives of My Parents

John Banville: On the Undreamed Lives of My Parents

Quiet Lives of Desperation Aren't Always as Desperate as They Look

By John Banville | February 27, 2018

When Your Feminist Dystopia Becomes a Work of Realism

When Your Feminist Dystopia Becomes a Work of Realism

Red Clocks">Speaking with Leni Zumas about Her New Novel, Red Clocks

By Maddie Crum | January 18, 2018

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