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All About My Mother: Brandon Taylor on Love, Rage, and Family

All About My Mother: Brandon Taylor on Love, Rage, and Family

"My family was a series of hushed rages behind shut doors."

By Brandon Taylor | August 1, 2018

Dear Book Therapist: How Do I Survive My C- Marriage?

Dear Book Therapist: How Do I Survive My C- Marriage?

One Letter-Writer Wants to Retreat from the World; Another to Find Peace in It

By Rosalie Knecht | June 19, 2018

Porochista Khakpour on Learning to Own the Discomfort of the Body

Porochista Khakpour on Learning to Own the Discomfort of the Body

"To Find a Home in My Body is to Tell a Story That Doesn’t Exist"

By Porochista Khakpour | June 15, 2018

How My Father Finally Made Peace with My Career as a Writer

How My Father Finally Made Peace with My Career as a Writer

"I Couldn't Be Happy and Be What He Wanted"

By Susan Shapiro | June 15, 2018

Dear Rick Moody: How Do I Accept My Illness and My Inability to Write?

Dear Rick Moody: How Do I Accept My Illness and My Inability to Write?

On Writing as a Field of Communications and Expressions of Self

By Rick Moody | May 21, 2018

Dear Book Therapist: What Do I Read When the Worst Has Happened?

Dear Book Therapist: What Do I Read When the Worst Has Happened?

Two Letter Writers For Whom Staring Over Isn't an Option

By Rosalie Knecht | May 9, 2018

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Fate and Fortune:
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By Literary Hub | May 3, 2018

A Rare Conversation with the Cult Chinese Writer Xi Xi

By Megan Walsh | May 3, 2018

When Fiction Pulls Back the Curtain on American Conservatism

By Colette Shade | April 24, 2018

What Good is a Pain Scale if Nobody Believes You?

What Good is a Pain Scale if Nobody Believes You?

Abby Norman on All-Consuming Pain and the Birth of Dolorimetry

By Abby Norman | March 14, 2018

Esmé Weijun Wang Finds Her Way Back to a Beloved Childhood Dish

Esmé Weijun Wang Finds Her Way Back to a Beloved Childhood Dish

How Illness Took Me Away from the Foods of My Youth

By Esmé Weijun Wang | March 13, 2018

Hilary Mantel:

Hilary Mantel: "We Still Work to a Man’s Timetable and a Man’s Agenda"

On Pain, Ambition, and Children

By Elizabeth Renzetti | March 9, 2018

Returning to Writing After a Stage Four Cancer Diagnosis

Returning to Writing After a Stage Four Cancer Diagnosis

"Death is the Common Denominator for all Living Organisms"

By Annabelle Kim | February 26, 2018

The Births and Deaths of Kathy Acker

The Births and Deaths of Kathy Acker

How a Literary Icon Remixed Identity Again and Again

By Douglas A. Martin | November 30, 2017

Finding Solace in Bookstores, in the Face of Cancer

Finding Solace in Bookstores, in the Face of Cancer

Mary Ladd on the Pleasure of Being Surrounded By Literature

By Mary Ladd | November 7, 2017

First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait

First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait

In Praise of Narrative Medicine

By M. Sophia Newman | October 26, 2017

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