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Battling the Book
The book is no longer a piece of writing; it’s a puzzleIssue 78
Dismantling the Patriarchy by Reclaiming Her Voice
Elissa Bassist reflects on how women’s voices get silenced & reborn, the eleven years it took to write her memoir, and how she wrote like a mother#^@%*&Issue 78
Shrapnel
Writing can be a way of processing traumatic events, but it can also cause its own kind of distress. The coeditor of a book about school shootings considers the cost of "holding the pain."Issue 77
Most Read in 2021
Year-End Lists!Erik Larson on the joys of digging through archives
"You never know what you’re going to find in the next folder."Issue 75
Politics in Prose
A litmag editor reconsiders the role of personal essays in the Trump eraIssue 68
Interview with Michael Stephens
Michael Stephens’ essay about his old writing teacher, Seymour Krim, developed from a series of notes he was making about two separate topics: Seymour Krim, and the genre of creative nonfiction.Issue 02
Another interview with Donald Morrill
While in China, poet Donald Morrill kept travel journals, “not really certain what I was going to do with them,” he says. He thought he would use them to write poems, and later did.Issue 02
The Writing Zone: An interview with Christopher Buckley
What pleases Christopher Buckley most about “Work-Ups” is that he was able to capture the feeling of goodwill that baseball brought to him and his friends during the 1950s.Issue 02
Listening for a Voice: interview with Margaret Gibson
Margaret Gibson wrote her essay, “Thou Shalt Not Kill,” to “record a world that is vanishing,” she says. She wrote the memoir, in which she recalls learning about life and death in her childhood rural home, to hear her own voice-a voice that she says is diminishing daily under the onslaught of commercialism.Issue 02