In an excerpt from her memoir, T Kira Madden recalls a harrowing adventure with her parents.
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Shelved: Tupac and MC Hammer’s Promising Collaboration
Sometimes the most fertile creative relationships are the most unlikely.
Posted inNonfiction
Longreads Best of 2018: Food Writing
We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in food writing.
Posted inEditor's Pick
My Editor Was Black
“Debut author Naima Coster on working with Morgan Parker, the whiteness of publishing, and literary self-determination.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
The Cost of Reading
Ayşegül Savaş contemplates the way women’s and men’s time is valued and the uneven burden taken by women writers in literary citizenship.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Looking for Carolina Maria de Jesus
For a brief period in the 1960s, the Afro-Brazilian author of the memoir “Child of the Dark” was one of the most well-known writers in the world.
Posted inBooks, Crime, History, investigations, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
A Manson Murder Investigation 20 Years In the Making: ‘There Are Still Secrets’
‘Everything that Manson did with his women was exactly what the CIA was trying to do with people without their knowledge, in the exact same time, at the exact same place.’
Posted inProfiles & Interviews
5 Questions for Kristi Coulter About Writing, Humor, and Getting Sober
“If I couldn’t find humor in sobriety, I probably wouldn’t make it.”
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Why Reading Sherman Alexie was Never Enough
In the wake of several women speaking out about being sexually harassed by Native American author Sherman Alexie, and/or having their careers derailed by him, writer Jacqueline Keeler interrogates the tokenism and minimal representation in publishing that gave Alexie so much power.
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These Writers Are Launching A New Wave Of Native American Literature
A new generation of indigenous writers reject the aesthetics and standards of the white publishing world. And finally, the first Native-focused MFA program is here to facilitate their visions and voices, and make Native Americans more visible in literature.
