An entanglement with her shrink-stalking protege teaches Susan Shapiro something about forgiveness.
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The Occupation of a Woman Writer
Our inherited biases about who should write what live deeper than most of us realize or want to acknowledge.
Posted inNonfiction
Game of Crones
It wasn’t entirely Laura Lippman’s idea to become a mother in her 50s. But when it happened, she leaned in hard.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Story
Searching for The Sundays
When music writers are also music fans, they can walk a line between appreciative and intrusive.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
B is for Bastard
As a boy, after the trauma of learning he is not his father’s biological son, Brian Gresko finds his sense of himself is shattered.
Posted inNonfiction
Learning from Perimenopause and a Kpop Idol
Struggling with fluctuating hormones, Wendy Gan is inspired by the musician Mino to stop muting herself and return to writing.
Posted inEditor's Pick
How Trump Is Shaking Up the Book Industry
Ignore that headline. Trump doesn’t read and he can barely spell, but his election has some American commercial book publishers reassessing how their literary fiction can better connect with small-town America and the white working class. Some publishers, not all. As literary agent Nicole Aragi said, “White identity is very well curated in the literary space.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
Los Angeles Plays Itself
In this land of constant reinvention, a longtime resident walks the streets to understand what the city was and what it’s becoming.
Posted inNonfiction
Reading Lessons
You never stop learning how to read — probably because you also never stop forgetting how to read.
