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,…
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The Edge of Extraordinary
I am nearing the end of my first writerly—read, sedentary—summer ever.
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On Reading a Killer’s Manifesto
Over Memorial Day weekend, I enjoyed an idyllic three days with friends. When they left on Tuesday, I returned to the world…
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Of Bikes and Men
I’ve just completed my first year as a full-time lecturer teaching writing at a state university, and this is, undoubtedly, the most anticipated summer…
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Crafting Memoir and “Doing Grief”: An Interview with Melanie Bishop
This week’s guest writer, Melanie Bishop, was one of my first writing teachers at Prescott College, a small liberal arts and environmental school in…
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Lives and Past Lives
I’ve always loved walking at night. I’ll go anywhere: through the neighborhoods of small towns, through a dozen identical suburbs, through seedy…
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Women We Read This Week
Claire Messud interviewed by Alex Clark in The Guardian I’ve come late to Claire Messud: I picked up The Last Life on a whim…
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Freedom to Speak: An Interview with Sampsonia Way’s Silvia Duarte
In her essay “Forbidden,” this week’s guest writer, Katie Booth, writes about her experience teaching writing at a university in Guangzhou, China. As an…
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A Life’s Work
By the time my father was in his late fifties, he’d calculated the number of days of work he had left until he could retire; it was somewhere over eight hundred.
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Yo Soy Perú
The toucan lifts its lobster-claw bill into the sky over and over, releasing its whooping, loonish phrase like a persistent question.
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A Road Runs Through It
I strain to see stars through the tropical haze and the pollution of the city. Moto taxis rattle over the nearby road…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read online this week. Two by Emily Rapp My favorite pieces this week,…
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