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Breaking Silence: Talking to Author Dylan Landis and Editor Michele Filgate About “What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About”
Taylor Larsen interviews Michele Filgate and Dylan Landis about their new anthology, "What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About."
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Shapes of Silence: On Michele Filgate’s Anthology “What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About”
Azarin Sadegh relishes the intimate and authentic personal essays that form editor Michele Filgate's "What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About."
A New Place of Refuge: On Salka Viertel’s “The Kindness of Strangers”
Alex Harvey appreciates “The Kindness of Strangers,” a classic memoir of Hollywood’s émigré bohemia by Salka Viertel.
That Factual Feeling: Voices of “The Good Immigrant”
The pieces in "The Good Immigrant" knit together experiences that, though sometimes at odds with one another, complicate notions of immigrant life.
Hell Down in Hollywood: On Duke Haney’s “Death Valley Superstars”
Peter L. Winkler plumbs the depths of “Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland” by Duke Haney.
A Knack for Embracing Impermanence: On Pico Iyer’s “Autumn Light”
A new memoir about coming to terms with aging and death.
Trying to Build the World from Ash: Chris Rush on the Art of Memoir
Grace Hadland interviews artist Chris Rush about his new memoir, “The Light Years,” which details his coming-of-age as a gay man in 1970s suburbia.
Transgressive Circulation: A Conversation with Johannes Göransson
M. Buna speaks to Johannes Göransson about his “Transgressive Circulation: Essays on Translation.”
The Singular Power of Writing: A Conversation with Thomas Chatterton Williams
Otis Houston speaks to Thomas Chatterton Williams, author of “Losing My Cool” and “Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race.”
Il Accuse: On “Who Killed My Father” by Édouard Louis
Kevin O’Rourke on the personal and the political in “Who Killed My Father” by Édouard Louis.
Whispers in the Bare Ruined Choir: Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Crisis of Faith
Meghan O'Gieblyn's "Interior States" is an exemple of the kind of commentary that uses religious vocabulary to describe our current moment.
Astonishments for Our Time
Lowry Pressly considers “The Condition of Secrecy” by Inger Christensen.
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