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Hitchhiking With Vanessa
"A small crowd gathered around the dumpster in the rain. Word filtered back that the girl was a teenage hitchhiker. I remember thinking that it could be me, because I was also a teenage hitchhiker."...
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Whore Stories, by Tyler Stoddard Smith
Whore Stories by Tyler Stoddard Smith is a refreshingly intelligent cultural history of prostitution in the modern world.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel Looks Back Harshly
A painful and honest look back by Elizabeth Wurtzel at her social life and 20-year writing career has created a lot of buzz, both positive and negative ...
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The Great Lost Jazz Memoir: Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
What a voice. Rich, dark, sassy, slangy and street-smart. Funny, bitter, bristling with innocent joy. I'm talking about Billie Holiday's voice, but I'm not talking about her singing voice. I'm talking...
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Katharine Graham, the Heroine of the Washington Post
"Personal History" by newspaper publisher Katharine Graham is one of the most stunning and inspiring autobiographies I've ever read.
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Carolyn Cassady, 1923 - 2013
Carolyn Cassady, important voice of the Beat Generation, has died at 90.
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A Writer's Family: Roxana Robinson and Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Harriet Beecher Stowe was the daughter, sister and wife of clergymen. She had grown up with Scripture. She quoted passages from the Bible all the time in her letters and conversation; it was a living...
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Philosophy Weekend: Slavoj Zizek and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek has been exchanging letters with Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot, who is in jail for staging a protest in a Moscow cathedral.Series: Philosophy Weekend
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Maggie Estep
Slam poet and mystery novelist Maggie Estep has suddenly died at the age of 50.
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New Short Story Collections: Justin Taylor, Paula Bomer and Hilary Mantel
New short story collections by Justin Taylor, Paula Bomer and Hilary Mantel
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Kathy Acker: Dead Doll Humility
Kathy Acker's "Dead Doll Humility" presents the struggle of a writer to persevere against all opposition.
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My Summer Vacation at Willa Cather Camp
"In her novels and short stories, Cather developed plot lines and characters that revealed both the freedom of the artist to create and the social rejection of that imagination." An English teacher...
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To Be Trans: Lili Elbe and Me
Inspired by The Danish Girl, author April Rose Schneider shares the story of her own life as a Trans person.
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