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The Accurate Term
Her 12-year-old son’s questions about consent forced Natalie Serber to reconsider a long-ago night.
21 hrs ago
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Natalie Serber
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A Baker's Dozen of Excellent Personal Essays...
PLUS!: A call for submissions from Electric Literature in the announcements at the bottom.
Mar 25
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #4: Margaret Juhae Lee
"I knew I had the story of a lifetime in my grandfather’s story. It just took me awhile to understand how to write it."
Mar 22
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Sari Botton
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What the Prior Tenant Gave Me
I owe my favorite decade in the city to a gore-obsessed artist who got evicted.
Mar 20
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Sari Botton
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So Many Personal Essays...
PLUS: a workshop and a call for submissions in the announcements at the bottom.
Mar 18
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The Prompt-O-Matic: #9
A little something to get you writing.
Mar 15
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You Have Been Given
An excerpt of Emily Raboteau's essay collection, "Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against 'The Apocalypse'"
Mar 13
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Emily Raboteau
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Eleven Stellar Personal Essays to Read this Week
Plus one event and some great workshops in the announcements at the bottom.
Mar 11
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Drama! at the Knitting Factory
A night in the 90s when Sting made a cameo at an Andy Summers Trio show. An excerpt of "That's So New York," a new anthology.
Mar 8
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Dan Saltzstein
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How to Make Friends During the Apocalypse
On why we need community and chosen family.
Mar 6
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Anne Liu Kellor
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We ❤️ Personal Essays. Here's a Big Batch of Them...
Plus some great workshops in the announcements at the bottom.
Mar 4
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The Memoir Land Author Questionnaire #3: Leslie Jamison
"I always conceived of this as a book about simultaneity—the way life is often pointed a few ways at once; in this case, toward love and toward grief."
Mar 1
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Sari Botton
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