What Listening Has Taught Me: The Future Is Shaped by What We Remember
Oral historian Nyssa Chow considers the nested memories she belongs to, and invites readers to do the same.
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What Listening Has Taught Me: The Smallest Part of Your World
Oral historian Nyssa Chow considers how small routines and rituals tell larger stories.
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Ten Questions for Jonathan Fink
“Don’t worry about aesthetic categories or limitations. Have fun.” —Jonathan Fink, author of Don’t Do It—We Love You, My Heart?
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Ten Questions for Latif Askia Ba
“All you can do is pay attention to the process, the practice, and see what it does to you, what it does to the people around you, what it does to your dear readers.” —Latif Askia Ba, author of The Choreic Period
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Writing About Family: Lessons
Writer and scholar Rebecca Rainof offers advice on how to write about family by considering lessons learned over a lifetime.
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Writing About Family: Impossible Conversations
Writer and scholar Rebecca Rainof offers advice on how to write about family by imagining fictive dialogues.
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Revision Strategies: From Personal Narrative to Op-Ed
The author of Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America (Little A, 2021) offers advice on how to make a personal narrative resonate with the wider world.
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Ten Questions for Juhea Kim
“Describe your inner vision clearly so that the reader can see exactly what you see.” —Juhea Kim, author of City of Night Birds
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Ten Questions for Aaron Robertson
“Trust yourself enough to know that you don’t need to do backflips for your readers on the page. Just walk straight ahead.” —Aaron Robertson, author of The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
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Hybrid Writing and the Nonlinear Story
The author of The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain contemplates how hybrid writing can capture the nonlinear chronology of pain.
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