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A Gift I Couldn’t Offer my Mother: A Conversation with Claire Phillips
Claire Phillips unpacks the personal and structural struggles that permeated her family’s life in her new memoir.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Naming the Silences: A Conversation with Melissa Febos
The author discusses her new book, “Girlhood,” a text that mixes memoir, reportage, and the lyric essay.
They Can Do Anything They Want to You: Naming, Sex, and Value in Melissa Febos’s “Girlhood”
Melissa Febos’s “Girlhood” is a profoundly intimate memoir in the form of collected essays.
All Over the Shop: A Conversation with Geoff Dyer
Novelist and art critic Geoff Dyer reflects on his diverse and genre-defying career.
My Dark Secrets and Skeletons Are Not So Unique: A Conversation with James Brown
James Brown details his struggle with addiction, his path to hope, and his writing process in an interview with Rob Roberge.
Going with the Whimsy: A Conversation with Dinty W. Moore
Dinah Lenney talks to memoirist Dinty W. Moore, whose latest book, "To Hell with It," is out now.
Both/And: A Conversation with Emily Rapp Black
Emily Rapp Black challenges cultural narratives on disability, memoir, and gender in this interview with Gina Frangello.
On Joan Didion and Being Serious
Sophia Stewart reflects on Didion’s legacy as a serious writer and a style icon.
The Altar of Oblivion: On Maria Stepanova’s “In Memory of Memory”
Linda Kinstler ponders “In Memory of Memory,” a book-length essay by the Russian poet Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale.
In the Virtual Actual World: A Conversation with Jo Ann Beard
Jo Ann Beard and Rachel DeWoskin discuss Beard’s new essay collection, “Festival Days.”
“Fortyish Woman Seeks Meaning of Life”
Finnish author Mia Kankimäki follows in the footsteps of a series of adventurous “night women.”
Following the Shame: A Conversation with Deborah A. Lott
Barbara Abercrombie interviews Deborah A. Lott about her recent memoir, and shares her own methods along the way.
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