
A Slave to the Essayistic Impulse: An Interview with Angela Morales
he job of the essayist, like any storyteller,” writes Angela Morales in the introduction to her debut essay collection The Girls in My Town,…
Read Morehe job of the essayist, like any storyteller,” writes Angela Morales in the introduction to her debut essay collection The Girls in My Town,…
Read MoreMy dirty secret about literature is that I’m always looking to put down a book. I read slowly. I have places to be. Some…
Read MorePenny Guisinger recently went on the United State’s easternmost book tour for her first memoir, Postcards from Here.
Read MorePalmer’s piece begins with a family on the run. It’s her family, but they have new names and are not sure where they’re headed.
Read MoreCatapult’s Adopted Essay Series This week, I’m highlighting two essays from the recent Catapult series on adoption, which was expertly collected and edited by…
Read MoreIn 2008, when Mira Ptacin was five months pregnant, she attended a writing workshop in Northern California.
Read MoreDao Strom’s We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People Dao Strom’s We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People is one of those…
Read MoreI first noticed the robin one day in early June, as she swiped dead stalks from one of the two potted lavender plants on our deck.
Read MoreSomewhere near Kazakhstan, the 1980s: At nighttime, surrounded by goats, a little girl lay on her back in a pasture and pointed a small telescope toward the stars.
Read MoreWhen Villard Books, a Random House imprint, published Janice Erlbaum’s second memoir, Have You Found Her (2008), Vanity Fair threw her a party at…
Read MoreMolly Brodak’s “Bandit” in Granta Molly Brodak tells the story of her father, a gambler and bank robber who was an enigmatic, pervasive presence…
Read MoreI am nearing the end of my first writerly—read, sedentary—summer ever.
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