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Manuel Muñoz on Trying and Failing to Tell The Story of His Biological Father

Manuel Muñoz on Trying and Failing to Tell The Story of His Biological Father

“Everyone asked me how I felt, but the mystery was how he had felt.”

By Manuel Muñoz | November 1, 2022

The Grief of Publishing a Book Without the Parent Who Inspired You

The Grief of Publishing a Book Without the Parent Who Inspired You

Monica Macansantos on the Words Her Father Awakened

By Monica Macansantos | October 24, 2022

Finding Healing at Paris’s Shakespeare and Company

Finding Healing at Paris’s Shakespeare and Company

Natasha Sizlo on Realizing She Needed to Write

By Natasha Sizlo | August 19, 2022

A Poetics of Failure: On the Truths That Lie Between Words

A Poetics of Failure: On the Truths That Lie Between Words

D.S. Waldman Considers the Unbridgeable Gap Between Poetry and Any Single Poem

By D.S. Waldman | August 15, 2022

A Liturgy, a Great Release: On Becoming My Wife’s Writing Partner at the End of Her Life

A Liturgy, a Great Release: On Becoming My Wife’s Writing Partner at the End of Her Life

Robbie Quinn Remembers the Labors, Commitment, and Love of His Wife, Tallu Schuyler Quinn

By Robbie Quinn | May 23, 2022

Searching for the Ghosts of My Father’s Life in Hungary

Searching for the Ghosts of My Father’s Life in Hungary

Karen Winn on Traveling Overseas to Find the Parent She Had Lost

By Karen Winn | May 4, 2022

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Sports Are Sad: On Winning and Losing (i.e. Living and Dying)

Emily Thomas Mani on Grief and Ephemerality

By Emily Thomas Mani | June 23, 2021

Matthew Clark Davison on Care, Abuse, and the Narrative Possibilities of Brotherhood

Matthew Clark Davison on Care, Abuse, and the Narrative Possibilities of Brotherhood

The Author of Doubting Thomas in Conversation with Paul Lisicky

By Paul Lisicky | June 7, 2021

What Stoic Philosophers Can Teach Us About Grief

What Stoic Philosophers Can Teach Us About Grief

Nancy Sherman on Loss, Resilience, and the Ancients

By Nancy Sherman | May 17, 2021

The Salvific Power of Writing Through Terrible Grief

The Salvific Power of Writing Through Terrible Grief

Maryanne O'Hara on Finding Truth in the Wake of Her Daughter's Death

By Maryanne O'Hara | April 21, 2021

On the Bottomless Well of Grief After a Brother’s Death

On the Bottomless Well of Grief After a Brother’s Death

From Adam Mansbach’s Memoir in Verse, I Had a Brother Once

By Adam Mansbach | April 15, 2021

Why I Wrote a Novel Full of Secondary Characters

Why I Wrote a Novel Full of Secondary Characters

María José Ferrada on Precarity, Loss, and Traveling Salesmen

By María José Ferrada | February 17, 2021

Living That Van Life, Before It <br>Was a Hashtag

Living That Van Life, Before It
Was a Hashtag

Amanda Mei Kim on Her Itinerant California Childhood

By Amanda Mei Kim | January 15, 2021

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