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“My Legacy is of Broken Men.” Michael Thomas on Dreams, Alcoholism, and Black Fatherhood

“My Legacy is of Broken Men.” Michael Thomas on Dreams, Alcoholism, and Black Fatherhood

The Author of “The Broken King” Unpacks Intimacy and the the Fear of Endangering His Son

By Michael Thomas | August 14, 2025

Becoming a Parent Changes <em>How</em> You Write... But Must It Change What You Write?

Becoming a Parent Changes How You Write... But Must It Change What You Write?

Danny Lorberbaum on Balancing Creativity and New Fatherhood

By Danny Lorberbaum | June 13, 2025

Eden Lost: Nin Andrews on the Pains and Rewards of Writing a Memoir About Her Father

Eden Lost: Nin Andrews on the Pains and Rewards of Writing a Memoir About Her Father

The Author of “Son of a Bird” Tells the Story of a Family of Facades

By Nin Andrews | April 29, 2025

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

Viet Thanh Nguyen on Finding the Foreign in Ourselves and Those Most Like Us

“That is the joy of otherness, an awareness that even seeing oneself face to face means that the very notion of otherness is present.”

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | April 10, 2025

A Literary Inheritance: On the Stories We Tell (and Don’t Tell) To Our Children

A Literary Inheritance: On the Stories We Tell (and Don’t Tell) To Our Children

Alejandro Zambra: “All I have to do is sit beside you...and read to you the parts of the book that have words...”

By Alejandro Zambra | October 8, 2024

Paternal Instinct: Why Men Go Gaga Over Babies, Too

Paternal Instinct: Why Men Go Gaga Over Babies, Too

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on the Biological and Neurological Impulses That Fuel Parent-Child Bonds

By Sarah Blaffer Hrdy | May 16, 2024

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A Different Kind of Dad Book: Lucas Mann on Fatherhood, Writing, and the Essay as an Act of Care

By Brian Gresko | May 9, 2024

How The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Tackled the Topic of Black Fatherhood

By Chris Palmer | February 2, 2023

On War, Fatherhood, and the Half-Life of Cormac McCarthy’s Literary Fission

By Will Cathcart | January 5, 2023

A Great Man Is Hard to Find: On the Literature of Contemporary Fatherhood

A Great Man Is Hard to Find: On the Literature of Contemporary Fatherhood

Janet Manley Considers The Great Man Theory, Raising Raffi, and Dad-as-Author

By Janet Manley | July 18, 2022

WATCH: Keith Gessen on the Profound (and Often Maddening) Experience of Being a Dad

WATCH: Keith Gessen on the Profound (and Often Maddening) Experience of Being a Dad

In Conversation with Jessica Grose at Greenlight Bookstore

By The Virtual Book Channel | June 30, 2022

Michael Wheaton on Fatherhood and Writing to Regain a Sense of Control

Michael Wheaton on Fatherhood and Writing to Regain a Sense of Control

In Conversation with Kirsten Reneau for the Micro Podcast

By Micro Podcast | April 29, 2022

An Essay About Tiny, Spectacular Futures Written a Week or So After a Very Damning IPCC Climate Report

An Essay About Tiny, Spectacular Futures Written a Week or So After a Very Damning IPCC Climate Report

In Which Lucas Mann Considers the Lives to Come

By Lucas Mann | October 14, 2021

When the Dismissive Editor in Your Head Is Your Father

When the Dismissive Editor in Your Head Is Your Father

Jonathan Wells on Finding a Way Back to Writing on His Own Terms

By Jonathan Wells | August 20, 2021

Letter to an Unborn Child: How Could I Bring You Into a Collapsing World?

Letter to an Unborn Child: How Could I Bring You Into a Collapsing World?

Daniel Sherrell Navigates Love and Desperation in the Time of Climate Change

By Daniel Sherrell | August 3, 2021

Learning to Write About Your Own Children

Learning to Write About Your Own Children

Wayne Miller on Poetry, Consent, and Empathetic Imagination

By Wayne Miller | June 24, 2021

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