In this reading list, Jeanne Bonner ruminates on the joys of writing by hand and keeping a notebook.
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Arranging Your Body in Space: Talking Identity, Memoir, and Twins with Leah Dieterich
“One-eighth of all natural pregnancies begin as twins,” Leah Dieterich writes in her memoir, “but early in pregnancy, one twin becomes less viable and is compressed against the wall of the uterus or absorbed by the other twin.” This concept of a vanishing twin, a term coined in the year of Dieterich’s birth, frames the […]
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5 Questions for Kristi Coulter About Writing, Humor, and Getting Sober
“If I couldn’t find humor in sobriety, I probably wouldn’t make it.”
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Your Best Work Comes from Scaring Yourself
Essayist Chelsea Hodson had to give herself permission to be uncomfortable.
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‘Failing is a Skill of General Utility’: An Interview with Sarah Manguso
Anna Furman interviews Sarah Manguso about the process of writing her new book, 300 Arguments, her writing influences, failure and thwarted ambition, and how she’s sleeping post-inauguration.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
On Midlife, Failure, and Thwarted Ambition: Sarah Manguso and 300 Arguments
Anna Furman interviews Sarah Manguso about the process of writing her new book 300 Arguments, her writing influences, failure and thwarted ambition, and how Sarah’s sleeping post-inauguration.
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Full Disclosure: A Reading List About Confessions
In these six stories, a drunk driver confesses via viral video, an ex-Catholic returns to confession, a high-school cheater reveals her indiscretions, and more.
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Full Disclosure: A Reading List About Confessions
In these six stories, a drunk driver confesses via viral video, an ex-Catholic returns to confession, a high-school cheater reveals her indiscretions, and more.
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Is Keeping a Diary Harmful to Your Daily Existence?
In Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, writer Sarah Manguso meditates on her decades-long obsession with keeping a minutiae-filled diary of her daily life, a practice she has decided is a vice. She discusses being the envy of others who covet her dedication and focus on the project, how her memory of actual events has been effected […]
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Remembering a New York friendship. Excerpted from Manguso’s new book, The Guardians: An Elegy, out Feb. 28: The Thursday edition of the Riverdale Press carried a story that began An unidentified white man was struck and instantly killed by a Metro-North train last night as it pulled into the Riverdale station on West 254th Street. […]
