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Writing to Heal: Talking with Emilly Prado

  • Melissa Matthewson
  • August 6, 2021
Emilly Prado discusses her debut essay collection, FUNERAL FOR FLACA.
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  • Allyson McCabe
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Viv Albertine’s Emotional Investigation

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • June 14, 2018
I’ve worked through the pain, and made something useful and creative out of it.
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Sound & Vision: Nicole Georges

  • Allyson McCabe
  • July 27, 2017
Allyson McCabe talks with Nicole Georges, illustrator, zinester and educator, about her new book Fetch, how she got into the DIY punk scene, and family secrets.
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The Saturday Rumpus Interview: Cristina García and Truong Tran

  • Michelle Marie Wallace
  • July 16, 2016
How do you work with a material that you don’t have trust in? I had to step away from it and find another way of articulating and I had to do it without words.
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Teaching the Diaries of the Holocaust

  • Michelle Vider
  • August 31, 2015
Alexandra Zapruder writes for Lit Hub on her two decades of work collecting diaries written by teenagers and young adults during the Holocaust, as well as teaching about the wide…
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Dear Diary

  • Claire Burgess
  • December 19, 2014
…while autobiography and memoir have gained ground as legitimate and canonical literary modes, the diary retains an association with inappropriate, overly personal, or pejoratively “private” discourse. At Huffington Post, Kylie…
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Making Art and Being an Artist

  • Ian MacAllen
  • September 1, 2014
When does an artist get to be called an artist? Anne Truitt explored the labels in her diary seven years in the making, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist. Maria…
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Dear Diary, A History

  • Guia Cortassa
  • July 31, 2014
The diary novel is an understudied genre dating back to the Victorian era, often associated with young women, that includes (and sometimes combines) fiction and non-fiction. At The Hairpin, Johannah…
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Almost On The Road

  • Bryan Washington
  • May 26, 2014
The New Yorker has unlocked a selection of Jack Kerouac’s journals that ran in the magazine back in 1998. Beginning with his near-completion of Town and City, and ending days…
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When The Private Becomes The Professional

  • Rebecca Rubenstein
  • August 6, 2013
“Will social media kill writers’ diaries?” So asks Rumpus contributor Michele Filgate, in a Salon piece that examines the growing usage of Twitter, Facebook, and other public outlets to allow readers…
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