Family First Steps: Searching for My Birth Family
Nicole Soojung Callahan on her decision to search for her birth family.
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Relationships In Celebration of Old-School LiveJournal
The author on her nostalgia for LiveJournal, the friends it brought her, and what it means to write it all down.
Writing I Hope You Sing About Me: A Short Story
A short story by Vanessa Willoughby.
Writing Multiple-Choice Reading Quiz Answers Actually Selected by Students in Classes I Taught as a T.A.
"The following list includes the major components of rhetorical strategy often employed in a persuasive essay: panic, terror, outrage, catharsis."
Sex Fuck Her Raw: On Language and Seduction
Alessandra Wollner on the language of seduction, and how words can be an incantation.
Writing The Unified Theory of Ophelia: On Women, Writing, and Mental Illness
The author on why she believes Ophelia is the most important character William Shakespeare ever created.
Books Thorns in My Throat: Writing Through the Scars
Shveta Thakrar on how she lost and then found her voice through writing.
Books I Dedicate This Novel to the Man Who Convinced Me to Stop Writing Silly Genre Fiction and Crank out a Thinly Veiled Memoir
A forked-tongue tribute to the terrible men of literature who talked our heroines out of their worthless genre fiction aspirations.
Work Priced Out: Why I Can No Longer Afford a Career in Writing
The author reflects on the challenges of pursuing a career in writing, and the attendant risks he feels he and many writers can no longer afford to take.
Writing Charm School
Rebecca Scherm on the pressure she feels to be "charming."
Books After Amy Tan: An Asian American Literature Roundtable
Five Asian American women writers discuss APIA literature, race, identity, the role of APIA-centric publications, favorite books, and more.
Writing Erotica Written By An Alien Pretending Not To Be Horrified By The Human Body
It's learning, slowly.
Food What Would Laurie Colwin Do?: On Eating and Contentment
Emily Gould on the eternal perfection of Laurie Colwin.
Beauty Beauty Work: Lessons in Ballet
Siobhan Phillips on dance, performing gender, Wendy Whelan, and the discipline of ballet.
The Butter Flight
Laura van den Berg on her fear of flying.
