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Why I Saw <em>The Bad News Bears</em> Ten Times in the Theater as a Nine-Year-Old Boy

Why I Saw The Bad News Bears Ten Times in the Theater as a Nine-Year-Old Boy

Thomas Beller on Losing His Father and Finding Him Again and Again in a '70s Classic

By Thomas Beller | November 4, 2025

How Being a Writer Broke (Then Healed) My Queer Little Heart

How Being a Writer Broke (Then Healed) My Queer Little Heart

Grant Chemidlin on Finding Poetry In the Process of Coming Out

By Grant Chemidlin | October 24, 2025

On the Art (and Artifice) of the Miniature

On the Art (and Artifice) of the Miniature

For Amber Sparks the Dollhouse is a Whole World

By Amber Sparks | October 17, 2025

How To Raise a Reader in an Age of Digital Distraction

How To Raise a Reader in an Age of Digital Distraction

Jessica Ewing on the Ways Parents Can Promote Thoughtful Technology Use and Sustainable Reading Habits

By Jessica Ewing | September 15, 2025

Amanda Uhle on Using a Childhood Photo as the Cover of Her Book

Amanda Uhle on Using a Childhood Photo as the Cover of Her Book

“All I ever wanted was an accurate portrait of who my parents were.”

By Amanda Uhle | August 27, 2025

Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine

Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine

“The language of poetry speaks to all our senses... It can speak, privately, to all of us. It is visceral.”

By Ilya Kaminsky | August 20, 2025

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Meet Addy: The Story of the First Black American Girl Doll

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How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

By Peter Conrad | May 5, 2025

“Indian Hockey Kicks Ass.” On Finding Meaning in Another Nation’s Pastime

“Indian Hockey Kicks Ass.” On Finding Meaning in Another Nation’s Pastime

Kyle Edwards on Writing Fiction Inspired by the Struggles and Hopes of Canada’s Indigenous Nations

By Kyle Edwards | April 21, 2025

What Western Art Can Learn from Hayao Miyazaki’s Radical Portrayals of Childhood

What Western Art Can Learn from Hayao Miyazaki’s Radical Portrayals of Childhood

Henry Lien on Self-Esteem, "My Neighbor Totoro," and Defying Box-Office Tropes

By Henry Lien | March 10, 2025

How Loneliness and Companionship Can Impact a Writer’s Creative Life

How Loneliness and Companionship Can Impact a Writer’s Creative Life

Emily Hodgson Anderson: “What I realized in retrospect was how this personal trajectory... is one I live through, in microcosm, every time I write.”

By Emily Hodgson Anderson | March 5, 2025

How Many Licks? On Tootsie Pops, Desire and the Science of Delayed Gratification

How Many Licks? On Tootsie Pops, Desire and the Science of Delayed Gratification

Sarah Perry Explores the Psychological and Material Factors Behind Our Candy Consumption Habits

By Sarah Perry | February 4, 2025

A Self-Made Myth: How Edith Wharton Rewrote Her Own Childhood

A Self-Made Myth: How Edith Wharton Rewrote Her Own Childhood

Constance Roisin on the Author’s Construction of Herself in Fiction and in Life

By Constance Roisin | January 24, 2025

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Recommends Sarah Moss, Jamaica Kincaid, Carson McCullers and Others

By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum | January 17, 2025

Remembering Renay: On Growing Up With an Unforgettable Mother

Remembering Renay: On Growing Up With an Unforgettable Mother

With Humor and Love, Andy Corren Revisits a Childhood of Poverty, Paperbacks, and Poetry

By Andy Corren | January 16, 2025

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