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On Publishing My Memoir of Grief As My Father Lays Dying
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On Publishing My Memoir of Grief As My Father Lays Dying

“My job as a parent isn’t over until your book gets published,” my father said, years ago. I don’t remember the circumstances of this statement—where we were, what we were doing. I want to say it had something to do with his body, maybe the deterioration of his lungs to COPD, his breathing so labored

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A Memoir of a Marriage Cut Short and the Secrets Left Behind
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A Memoir of a Marriage Cut Short and the Secrets Left Behind

Molly Brodak was a poet, baker and memoirist who died in 2020. MOLLY , by Blake Butler The first sign that “Molly” is not going to be a typical memoir arrives on Page 20. That’s when the author, Blake Butler, finds himself on his hands and knees in agony beside his wife, whose body he

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Why I Chose to Be the Cover Model for My Own Novel
Fiction

Why I Chose to Be the Cover Model for My Own Novel

In 2021 a man on an island approached me and asked me if I was trans. When I said yes, he told me “I could barely tell, you’ve become very attractive to men, you must feel like you’ve reached your goal.” Playing with the male gaze seems to be a losing battle. You get judged

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Entering the ‘Matrix of Language’ With a Crossword Puzzle Fiend
Language

Entering the ‘Matrix of Language’ With a Crossword Puzzle Fiend

“In a good puzzle, the sense of authorship and personality is there,” said Anna Shechtman. “My favorite crosswords are ones that bear the mark of a specific human voice.”Credit…Benedict Evans/August Anna Shechtman was 15 when she started building crossword puzzles, and 19 when her first puzzle was published in The New York Times. She later

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Kate Zambreno Takes Issue With What Counts as ‘Literature’
LITERATURE

Kate Zambreno Takes Issue With What Counts as ‘Literature’

Credit…Rebecca Clarke Men’s personal narratives are dissected; women’s are “dismissed as merely autofiction or memoir,” says the author of “The Light Room: On Art and Care.” Her 2012 “Heroines” has just been reissued. Credit…Rebecca Clarke What books are on your night stand? A bit of a brag, but I just got the Annie Ernaux box

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Ariana Grande Takes Romantic Inventory on “Eternal Sunshine”
SONGWRITING

Ariana Grande Takes Romantic Inventory on “Eternal Sunshine”

Confessional pop music has become freighted over the years by a kind of heightened expectation. Fans see more of pop stars now, in the quasi-candid precincts of social media, which means that fans believe themselves to have an understanding of pop stars, and there is a way in which songs or albums or music videos

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The Drawers Keep Popping Open: On Sloane Crosley’s “Grief Is for People”

Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley “I CAN’T SEEM to find a moment alone with you.” These despairing words appear in a passage close to the end of Sloane Crosley’s latest book, Grief Is for People (2024). The memoir traces the best-selling essayist and novelist’s response to learning that her dear friend Russell Perreault,

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