Unraveling: Peggy Orenstein Spins a Yarn about Yarn… and Life
Sourdough? Puppies? What were your survival strategies as the pandemic unraveled your life? Journalist Peggy Orenstein, revered for her provocative writing about the cultural pressures on young people, embarked on a wild and woolley (literally)…
Alice Wong: An Activist’s Life
When Alice Wong, on the verge of and excited about the publication and promotion of her memoir Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, suffered a major medical crisis last year, she was disappointed about the drastic change in plans . . . but…
Coming of Age in Words and Pictures
The transition from childhood to adolescence and beyond is a perennial theme in fiction—and for good reason. How many of us still have cringe-worthy moments from our teenaged years seared as indelible images in our brains? Here, three creators…
Memoir: The Meaning of Home
When poet and essayist Camille Dungy moved from the Bay Area to Colorado a decade ago, her new garden became both a metaphor and a site of resistance. In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, Dungy reflects on homogeneity and resilience,…
Claiming Space for the Self: Limitation and Liberation
What does it mean to unapologetically take up space when your body is different from everyone else's? Born with the rare congenital condition sacral agenesis, Chloé Cooper Jones (Easy Beauty) learned to cope with her physical pain—and the…
Writing a Path Out of Darkness: Writers on Mourning
Grief: one of the most complicated, isolating, yet potentially healing states a person can experience, it often defies description. These authors’ stories, whether drawn from lived experience or imagination, give voice to the unspeakable parts…
“Tell Me the Story of Your Body”: Emily Rapp Black and Jan Grue on Creativity and Disability
“This is not a story about survival. It is not about how I became a human, but rather how I came to understand that I already was human.” So writes Norwegian author Jan Grue, who was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy at age three. In…
The Secrets of Being an Extraordinary Woman: Three Authors on Ambition, Adventure, and Equality
Who says women can’t have it all? Get inspired by a powerful trio from Finland, Iceland, and the United States whose new books radically redefine pathways to happiness and a better society. In her research-based book, Lara Bazelon liberates…
What It Means to Be Human: Memoirs Rooted in Nature
Three remarkable writers remind us how close we really are to nature, and how wildness speaks a universal language of love, loss, grief, and change. The essays in Suzanne Roberts’ Animal Bodies interrogate how landscapes, ranging from the…
Natasha Miller: Relentless
From a homeless shelter for youth to the Inc. 5,000 list of fastest growing companies in America, Natasha Miller’s Relentless is a raw and powerful memoir about one woman’s tenacity in breaking free from an abusive childhood, the irreversible…