
Women We Read This Week
Catapult’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 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 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 MoreOver the past week, dozens of people — men and women — have taken Vela’s #listtheunlisted challenge, naming all of the women writers they…
Read MoreJanet Malcolm’s “Iphigenia in Forest Hills” in The New Yorker In the erratic throes of new motherhood, I’ve been doing a lot of baby…
Read MoreIf you are ever nineteen and living in San Francisco for the first time, working at your first writing job, getting paid, getting laid, carousing 24/7…
Read MoreRachel Riederer’s “The Teaching Class” in Guernica I read Riederer’s piece about a month ago, and though at first it didn’t stand out to…
Read MoreWhen I joined The Magazine as managing editor a year ago, the publication’s editor-publisher (and my boss) Glenn Fleishman and I had a number…
Read MoreMeredith Broussard’s “Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing” on The Atlantic Forget for a moment the irony of an article critiquing financial…
Read MoreCornelia Hesse-Honegger’s “Why I Traveled the World Hunting for Mutant Bugs” on Nautilus In this thought-provoking piece on her role as a scientific illustrator,…
Read MoreAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s “Towards a Fight” in The Rumpus It’s difficult to summarize Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s “Towards a Fight” not only because it is so wide-spanning, but…
Read MoreEditor’s Note: Even in our hyper-connected age, it can be pretty easy to fall into the habit of reading the same writers in the…
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