On Looking into Sherlock Holmes
The line between fiction and reality blurred almost immediately for Holmes readers.
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
An Individual Miracle
Those who are on the road from Auschwitz are all exceptions, just as every road from Auschwitz is an exception.
The Page Unturned
Marcia Aldrich interviews Jill Talbot.
Treasure Hunting: Maggie Mertens Interviews Huan Hsu
Instead of a straightforward treasure hunt, Hsu found a family as broken apart by war and complex Chinese history as the porcelain shards he discovered.
Enigmatic Interiors: On Love, Death, Divorce, and Michael White’s New “Travels in Vermeer”
The book is deceptive … a travel book that is really an art book; an art book that is really about love, death, drinking, and other kinds of grief.
Writer on Fire
Joni Tevis on writing and revising, atomic literature, and the meaning of apocalypse.
Stitching Out a Life in Graphic Memoir
With "Baddawi," Leila Abdelrazaq joins women cartoonists engaged in life writing. Not just Satrapi, but Alison Bechdel, Lynda Barry, and Phoebe Gloeckner.
Luminous Loss
Elizabeth Alexander explores her deeply expansive identity as the loving wife, the smart wife, the American wife in 'The Light of the World'.
Never Too Far
Oliver Sacks the doctor removes his white coat and beneath it reveals one helluva handsome biker who hung out with Hells Angels and played with death.
Outspoken: Quiet Lightning and the Generation of Literature
Quiet Lightning is a nonprofit literary organization, a submission-based reading series, a publisher, a film producer, a bi-annual magazine, a book and film contest, and the initiator of a yearlong ekphrastic project.
The Serial Reader
The new Vivian Gornick memoir isn't exactly "new," but it's still electrifying.
Without a Whit of Caution
The debut essay collection by Kate Carroll de Gutes considers the difficulties of long-term commitment, describing flailing and failing marriages.
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