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fathers
In a Family of Readers, Packing Up My Late Father's Library Was Hardest of All
Seth Greenland on Remembering, Retaining, and Failing to
Exorcise Sentiment
By
Seth Greenland
| September 16, 2020
My Father: The Genius, The Poet, Richard Eberhart
Gretchen Cherington on Growing Up Surrounded by Great Thinkers
By
Gretchen Cherington
| August 7, 2020
Don't You Know I Love You
Laura Bogart
By
Lit Hub Excerpts
| March 30, 2020
Michael Zapata on Stories of Displacement
In Conversation with G. P. Gottlieb on the New Books Network
By
New Books Network
| February 26, 2020
Tim O'Brien on Narrating His Own Book and Becoming a Dad Late in Life
The National Book Award-Winning Novelist Speaks to
Randy O'Brien on the
AudioFile
By
Randy O'Brien
| December 19, 2019
On Finding the Freedom to Rage Against Our Fathers
Minda Honey Tells the Story of a Daughter Who Refused to Walk on Eggshells
By
Minda Honey
| October 7, 2019
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Mike Schneider
| July 29, 2019
Fathers and Sons: The Things We Talk About to Avoid Talking to Each Other
By
Dean Kuipers
| June 14, 2019
A Brief Literary History of Absolutely Terrible Dads
By
Andrew Thurman
| June 14, 2019
Learning of My Father's Suicide From My Grandmother's Poetry
John James on the Hard Work of Acknowledging Terrible Truths
By
John James
| June 14, 2019
"I Am Black and Reflective." Keith S. Wilson Talks to Jericho Brown
Two Poets Talk Truth, Tradition, Form, and More
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Literary Hub
| June 6, 2019
Kate Mulgrew on the Work of Waiting, in Acting and in Life
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Orange Is the New Black
and
Star Trek
By
Kate Mulgrew
| May 22, 2019
Existential Dread and the Art
of Boat-Building
On Fatherhood and Large Projects That Make No Sense
By
Jonathan Gornall
| May 8, 2019
Chris Rush on Confronting the Ghosts of His Past
How a Painter Becomes a Writer
By
Chris Rush
| April 8, 2019
How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn
Two Writers Grieving for a Parent, a Century Apart
By
Katharine Smyth
| January 25, 2019
Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother
"I will finish for good, I pledged, by the anniversary of her death."
By
Honor Moore
| January 3, 2019
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