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Writer’s Craft Corner: Jocelyn Jane Cox

“What Is Your Sauce Policy? On Literary Devices and Craft Choices in Quiet Memoir,” appeared in the November 6, 2026 issue of true. We know..

What Is Your Sauce Policy? On Literary Devices and Craft Choices in Quiet Memoir

A few seconds after our 13-year-old asked for lunch during a road trip this summer, those ubiquitous McDonald’s arches suddenly appeared, turned into index fingers,..

We’re Still Making the Story: A Conversation with Kristen Millares Young

Deep into our conversation, Kristen Millares Young’s kittens got into it with a bigger cat from next door, and she broke off to send him..

Craft in Conversation: Following the Scent of the Story with Hyeseung Song

Hyeseung Song demonstrates incredible love through truth-telling in her debut memoir Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl (Simon & Schuster, 2024). Docile explores Hyeseung’s..

Redemption Through Re-Narration

Courtney Ann LaFaive’s second book, Follow the Signs: Searching for Linda Goodman, America’s Forgotten Astrology Queen, came out this spring through the University of Iowa..

The Architecture of Care

Craft, Consciousness, and Ethical Form in Girlhood In Girlhood, Melissa Febos does not merely recount the experience of growing up female; she constructs an ethical..

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..

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.

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