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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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Fields of Light

  • Vanessa Nirode
  • May 18, 2020
Light reflects differently off near and faraway objects. It’s all about the light.
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  • Brandon Hicks
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Stories of My Street

  • Brandon Hicks
  • August 18, 2019
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The Itch to Write: Talking with Courtney Maum

  • Robin Benway
  • July 24, 2019
Courtney Maum discusses her new novel, COSTALEGRE.
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You Can’t Be a Snob with Bad Teeth: Talking with David Sedaris

  • Lyz Lenz
  • June 2, 2017
David Sedaris discusses his new collection of diary entries, Theft By Finding, his love for book signings, and his inevitable return to IHOP.
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A Very Great Scoundrel: The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins Volume III: Diaries, Journals, and Notebooks

  • Patrick James Dunagan
  • May 19, 2017
In hindsight, it’s sometimes difficult not to read more than a bit of sadomasochism into Hopkins’s inner passions and the ways in which he resisted them.
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Lucy Dacus’s Journals

  • Allyson McCabe and Esme Blegvad
  • October 13, 2016
What I write in my journals is a personal record of the events in my life, and my reactions to them.
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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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Paper Memories

  • Stephanie Bento
  • July 13, 2016
At Medium, Melissa Mesku, founding editor of New Worker Magazine, writes about what it was like to sort through thirty years’ worth of journals, diaries, notes, and scraps of paper: Those…
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The Diary of Anaïs Nin While Binge-Watching Broad City

  • Laura Eppinger
  • June 23, 2016
One episode after another with every outrageous twist and turn. I smile but no laughter comes—just a gaping mouth wishing to devour more!
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A Crucial Conversation with the Self

  • Guia Cortassa
  • March 8, 2016
For a black woman in a white world, a conversation with the self is crucial: for when she walks through that often-unwelcoming world she is subjected to confining perceptions of…
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John Cage’s Diary

  • Olivia Wetzel
  • October 20, 2015
Late composer and writer John Cage’s diary is being published in late October. John Cage: Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) contains Cage’s stories…
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