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Speculation as Art: Mapping Possibilities to Tell Elusive Stories

A decade ago, I visited the Angel Island Immigration Station, the California port of entry where, between 1910 and 1940, Chinese immigrants were detained under..

In Praise of an Agentive Woman

A review of Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free, a biography by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson “The status of womanhood, like the tides of..

Writing From Within the Experience: An Annotated Interview with Jeannie Vanasco

Jeannie Vanasco is no stranger to writing her way through the hardest of material. Her debut memoir, The Glass Eye (Tin House, 2017), was a..

Cracking Open: Accessing Vulnerability as an Emerging Writer

One thing people don’t tell you about college is how quickly you have to get used to crying in public. In high school, I had..

Body/Work: A Correspondence

Since we’d never met in person, I had to picture Richard taking notes, making observations as he walked around Brooklyn’s Cortelyou Road or maybe further..

Memoir in the Margins

The dance between journalism and memoir is like two old friends reconnecting at a party—there’s an awkwardness, a curiosity, and an undeniable chemistry. When I..

Historical Memoir for Our Times: Lessons in Testimony and Resistance

Writers might consider how integrating historical or philosophical frameworks can elevate personal suffering into universal moral inquiry.

The Writing is the Permanence

I stopped writing in my journal recently. Stopped cold. I convinced myself that I could dictate instead, to try and be 2x more productive, maybe..

Daily Photographs

On a slower pace, writing, and realizing what time brings.

The Conversations We Weren’t Meant to Hear

"As both a nonfiction writer and novelist, I've discovered that these overheard conversations contain the most authentic speech, revealing their generational differences and cultural identities."

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