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What to Read When Life is in Chaos
How Books Can Be a Framework When Everything Else Feels Like It’s Falling Apart
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Voices on Addiction: A Small, Dry Place
My earliest impressions of my father are like the negatives in a reel of over-exposed 35mm film, the kind of images that were returned from the photo lab with quality control stickers, marked “light damaged.”
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What to Read When You Want to Find Mystery in the Ordinary
…I find myself most excited about writing that is focused on the concrete facts of daily life.
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The First Book: Veena Dinavahi
Make your own meaning. It sounds cliché, but I’ve come to accept it as a survival skill.
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What to Read When You Can’t Catch a Break
What reliably got me out of that slump was writing more and reading literature that lifted me out of my immediate crisis (I can’t go on!) and into the world (and yet we must!).
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Funny Women: Advice for Midlife Lady Writers
Do not use a frowny face when forwarding your manuscript to an editor. Do not write “frowny face” either.
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Voices on Addiction: The Shape of Memory
He smelled of faint traces of acetone and the lemon hand soap he always used. He smelled like home.
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What to Read When You’re Looking for Romance
Throughout history, the marauding aristocracy has torn away people from their land and community, most recently in the formation of the modern industrial nation.
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What to Read When You’re a True Believer
One thing I always tell my students is, “your story matters,” because I want them to believe their observations about themselves and the world around them are worth writing about.
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Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman to lead The Rumpus as magazine’s new owners
The Rumpus will transition to new ownership under Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman, effective May 1, 2025, announced current Publisher Alyson Sinclair.
