Eva Hagberg Fisher on Lifesaving Friendships and the Art of Memoir
An interview with the author of ‘How To Be Loved.’
Tag: Memoir
‘Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls’ Is About Reckoning and Reparations
On T Kira Madden’s debut memoir about growing up in Boca Raton.
‘The Collected Schizophrenias’ Is a Mental Illness Mythbuster
On Esmé Weijun Wang’s debut essay collection.
If Earth Is Doomed, Pam Houston Wants to Go Out Singing
If you know anything about Pam Houston’s body of work, it should be no surprise that her newest book, Deep Creek:Continue Reading
Trolls, Trudeau, and Diversity in Publishing: An Interview with Scaachi Koul
BuzzFeed writer Scaachi Koul opens up about the time she was driven off Twitter after calling for non-white, non-male contributors in her new essay collection ‘One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter’.
On Nudity and Catholicism: An Interview with Patricia Lockwood
In her memoir, Priestdaddy, Patricia Lockwood turns to prose. Her father became a Catholic priest when she was young, and Priestdaddy chronicles a period when she and her husband moved back home to live in a rectory with her parents.
Abandoning Expectations with Melissa Febos’s ‘Abandon Me’
Abandon Me is an exploration of self-discovery…
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Feminist: Gabrielle Civil
Swallow the Fish is like finding a loved one’s journal and being allowed to sift through its contents without the residual guilt of having invaded the writer’s privacy.
‘Ongoingness’ Teaches How to Live More by Writing Less
Diaries, Manguso suggests, invade our memories as much as pictures. So why keep one? Ongoingness reflects on that question.
How Jason Diamond Went ‘Searching For John Hughes’ and Failed
John Hughes movies were an important part of my life growing up, as they were for much of my generation. His characters and their stories made up an essential part of our adolescence.
