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Letters from Trenton
While striving to become a travel writer in the years after Watergate, Thomas Swick discovered that although writing for a newspaper was educational, there was more to be learned through romance with a foreigner.
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Your Best Work Comes from Scaring Yourself
Essayist Chelsea Hodson had to give herself permission to be uncomfortable.
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Arundhati Roy: “Fiction is a Universe”
Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy is the embodiment of concept that the personal is political, even (especially?) in her fiction.
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Author Carmen Maria Machado on the Next Phase of #MeToo
Carmen Maria Machado discusses the nuances of “benevolent sexism,” who gets to define the #MeToo movement, and how it should progress.
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Dorothy Allison on how Shame Defines Class
“What seemed to me life-saving was that I couldn’t lie. I couldn’t put a candy-coated gloss on anything.”
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Anthony Bourdain and the Missing Piece
With magic, the goal is to give someone something they can carry around with them for a while.
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For Me, With Love and Squalor
After publishing her first book, Lauren Markham begins the long search for what she truly wanted after writing it.
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The Whole World is Naples Now
Sprawling, crumbling, beautiful, rough — Elena Ferrante’s Naples shows us the world’s violent underbelly, with no pretense.
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But What Will Your Parents Think?
In this personal essay, This Will Be My Undoing author Morgan Jerkins tackles the time-worn question of how far is too far to go in revealing yourself in first-person writing.