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Bad Education
Garrard Conley widens the scope of queer literature with his memoir about growing up in a devout Baptist home and surviving conversion therapy.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
Sober and Rockin’ After All These Years
To MFA or not to MFA? Mishka Shubaly on regret.
A Fan’s Notes
Juan Villoro's "God Is Round" looks at the highs and lows of soccer.
Once You Say It Out Loud
Sara-Kate Astrove and Zoe Zolbrod talk about what it means to be a victim.
A Source of Spectacle
Mario Bellatin reveals all and (almost) nothing at all.
Living for Art: A Conversation with Rob Spillman
Rob Spillman comes down from the ledge.
Forms of Living and Dying: The Posthumous Essays of “Becoming Earth”
Brenda Miller reviews Eva Saulitis’s posthumous essays that reflect on living and dying with cancer.
The Hidden Dying of Doctors: What the Humanities Can Teach Medicine, and Why We All Need Medicine to Learn It
There is an equally heartbreaking loss of another young doctor in Paul Kalanithi’s book, one especially troubling because it received almost no commentary.
“There Are No Rules for Coloring”: Chris Offutt on His Father
A review of Chris Offutt’s memoir of his father, a science-fiction writer and pornographer.
That’s Inspiration!: Rereading Annie Dillard
Sometimes aesthetic beauty is a window, sometimes it is a curtain. Annie Dillard makes beautiful work either way.
“Black Dove”: Ana Castillo’s Memoir of Motherhood
Ana Castillo has a new memoir about being a daughter, and being a mother.
Last Exit to Brooklyn
"Last Exit to Brooklyn" was actually shooting around the corner that summer — I signed on as an extra but my scenes didn’t make the final cut.
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