It was the place he came to feel wild, and I was ready to trespass into the world of men.
Writing
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Story, Writing
Meet the New Mormons
Is it possible to be queer, lefty, and a Latter-Day Saint? After leaving the church, Sarah Scoles sets out to understand liberal Mormons.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Writing
But a Novel Will Never Love You Like Your Children Do
Does each of your children represent a novel you’ll never write? Michael Chabon is okay with that.
Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Quotes, Unapologetic Women, Writing
Listening to the Words of Puerto Rican Poet Julia de Burgos After Hurricane Maria
Largely unknown, Julia de Burgos may have been Puerto Rico’s greatest poet.
Posted inArts & Culture, Discussions, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story, Writing
The Writers’ Roundtable: Fiction vs. Nonfiction
A conversation between writers Eva Holland, Benjamin Percy, Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Mary H.K. Choi, and Adam Sternbergh about writing on both sides of the fiction-nonfiction divide.
Posted inArts & Culture, Crime, Nonfiction, Story, Writing
The Death Row Book Club
When Anthony Ray Hinton was sentenced to death for two murders he didn’t commit, he used his time to create a book club for death row inmates.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, History, Story, Writing
This Is How They Saved Me
One month after her father was arrested, Neda Semnani and her family were taken on a dangerous journey to be smuggled out of Iran.
Posted inNonfiction, Story, Writing
Use and Abuse
Amy Long on how it feels to fight for the man you don’t want.
Posted inBooks, First Chapters, Nonfiction, Quotes, Writing
Leslie Jamison: Does Recovery Kill Great Writing?
When Leslie Jamison got sober she wanted to know how a life lived without alcohol would affect her writing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women, Writing
A Storyteller, Unbecoming
On showing, telling, and finding one’s way as a literary writer of color.