Mom would make excuses about not having cleaned the house. I knew they were lies. I knew her house was full.
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The Stuff That Came Between Mom and Me: A Story About Hoarding
Mom would make excuses about not having cleaned the house. I knew they were lies. I knew her house was full.
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The Truth About Writing Fiction From Your Life
A conversation about writing novels that have roots in reality.
Posted inNonfiction, Story, Writing
Hierarchy of Needs
Angela Palm learns to find joy in a world filled with suffering.
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The Money His Father Left Behind, and the Life it Would Start
When Alexander Chee’s father died at 43, he left behind a trust that would set the course of his son’s life.
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Wallace Shawn’s Late Night
The playwright has a lot to tell viewers about human nature and our depraved era. Too bad so few people have seen his plays.
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Longreads Best of 2017: Essays
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in essays.
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On the Contentious Borders of the American South
Zandria F. Robinson narrates her coming of age Memphis while examining contemporary southernness.
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Derivative Sport: The Journalistic Legacy of David Foster Wallace
Editors and writers discuss the ways David Foster Wallace’s work influenced them and what it was like to work with him.
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Brit Bennett Reflects on Living the Past Year in “Trump Time”
How the whiplash-like event of Trump following the nation’s first black president has “compressed time.”