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Winning Always Involves Sacrificing: Talking with Dickson Lam

Dickson Lam discusses his debut memoir, Paper Sons, the writing advice that transformed his approach to thee book, and the duty of a memoirist.

Porochista Khakpour discusses her new memoir, Sick, the difficulty of receiving good medical care, and the blessing of online community.

Aline Kominsky-Crumb discusses her graphic memoir, Love That Bunch, drawing cancer, inadequacies of early work, and her burial wishes.

[T]he effect of reading Chee’s essays is to be reminded of why we write, but also, why we read, even in these times of never-ending distress.

As May moves through what she now calls her “postpartum challenge,” she does not return to her old self, but instead becomes someone new.

Let’s take the women in our lives, and the women who came before us, off the pedestals but also, out of the graves of irrelevancy.

Terese Marie Mailhot discusses her debut memoir, Heart Berries, crafting trauma on the page, and her views on motherhood after writing her memoir.

What myths or distortions have you been told about your own family?

Michelle Tea discusses her forthcoming collection, Against Memoir, out tomorrow from Amethyst Editions/The Feminist Press.

Meaghan O'Connell discusses her new memoir, And Now We Have Everything, perfectionism in motherhood and writing, and being pregnant again.

Sometimes a story suddenly changes.

“I wrote this book. I worked really, really hard on it, and I was a little scared by it.”