Essay & Memoir
Personal Essays, Aphorisms, Memoirs, Speeches, Diaries, Sermons, Science & Nature Writing, Travel Essays, Belles Lettres, Criticism, Philosophy, Craft Essays
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- à Campo, J.N.F.M. Poiesis of the Past: A historian’s reading of the short story ‘Youth, a narrative’ by Joseph Conrad
- Anderson, Darran Imaginary Cities | Book Excerpt
- Angel, Ralph
- Anupama, A.
- Armstrong, Tammy Thefts, Contortions, & Yogic Breathing: Nicole Markotić’s Trickster Poetics
- Arnold, Glenn What it’s like living here [Edmonton]
- Arvidson, Adam
- Aubrey, Kim
- Axelrod, Steven
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- Balgach, Martin Move it or Lose it
- Barber, Phyllis Dancing with the Sacred
- Barclay, Byrna
- Bauer, Tom Childhood
- Bell, Amanda Uimhir a Cúig | Bad Weather Days: Memoir
- Bell, Ian Signor Farini: Song & Essay
- Bellamy, Joe David from Kindred Spirits
- Berbenuik, Brianna
- Bernstein, Samantha We’ve All Gone to Look for America
- Bernstein, Sarah The Boundless Chaos of Living Speech: On Homophonic Translation
- Berry, Michelle
- Best, Victoria
- Biss, Eula From On Immunity
- Blakeslee, Vanessa Shades and Mirrors: Character Gradation as a Demand of Resonance in the Novel
- Blood, Liz
- Bogartte, J. Karl In the Antechamber of Hallucination | Art & Prose
- Botha, Danila What it’s like living here [Toronto]
- Breckenridge, Donald
- Brennan, Dylan Roma Walking Around
- Brindley, Mary Hell is (Researching) Other People
- Brockbank, Stephen Desire, pain, pleasure
- Brown, Fleda
- Brown, Laura Catherine
- Brunger, Jeremy
- Bryson, Michael
- Bunkong Tuon
- Bursey, Jeff Thoughts on Sam Savage who is in Hospice Awaiting the Inevitable
- Byrne, Mary Uimhir a Cúig | Primordial Irishwomen & Other Texts
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- Campanioni, Chris Self-Interested Glimpses: Essay
- Carmona Rodríguez, Pedro I Am a Landscape of Desire: Gender, Genre and the Deconstruction of the Textuality of Empire in Douglas Glover’s Elle
- Carpenter, David Getting Carried Away: Memoir
- Carson, Michael Plot Structure in Three Short Stories | Essay on Conflict and Form
- Cascella, Daniela The Blank Page | Reading Isak Dinesen
- Celone, David Václav Havel’s Little Owl: The Poetics of Dissidence
- Chrostowska, S. D. Burn the Evidence! | From MATCHES: A Light Book
- Chu, Nicole Plot Structure in Three Stories: Essay on Form
- Chung, Jeanie What it’s like living here [Chicago]
- Clary, Sheela Exercises — with Tracy Proctor, Megan Okkerse, & Whitney Lee
- Clothier, Christy
- Cogan, Carrie What it’s like living here [Salt Spring Island, British Columbia]
- Ian Colford
- Cowdy, Cheryl
- Curtis, Paul M. Revisiting Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet
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- Dalton, Trinie SWAGGER: Musical Influence in Camden Joy’s Fiction (aka Tom Adelman)
- Day, Robert
- Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind: John Ashbery and Tadeusz Różewicz
- A Mother I Cannot Find Again: Memoir
- Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind: Sarah Palin and Coriolanus
- Chance Encounters of Literary Kind: Friends are Never Even: Jack (aka) John Barth
- Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind: Mavis Gallant (1922-2014)
- Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind: Dave Smith
- Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind | Montaigne: A Way of Knowing as a Way of Life
- Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind | Talk to Strangers and Stop on By: William Stafford
- Chance Encounters of the Literary Kind: Screenwriter Walter Bernstein
- Chance Encounters of a Literary Kind: Raymond Carver
- Dayson, Sion
- Deeley, Patrick Uimhir a Cúig |A Callows Childhood: Memoir
- Diener, Laura Michele
- Donovan, Mary What it’s like living here [Wheaton, Maryland]
- Dreifus, Erika Keeping Silent? Writing Fiction after September 11
- Ducornet, Rikki Gnosticism: A Genesis
- Dunne, Gregory On Translation | Quiet Accomplishment: Remembering Cid Corman
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- Eimers, Nancy Charmed Objects: Poetry and Childhood
- Ekman, John We Feed Horses in the Hopes that the Lowly Sparrows Might (eventually) Benefit
- Evans, Kate Threads from the Calais Refugee Crisis | Graphic Essay
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- Farrell, Richard
- Degenerates, Monks, and Writers
- Invitation to a Reshredding
- The Life and Work of Alphonse Kauders
- Unintentional Pugilism
- VCFA MFA in Writing Graduation Address
- What it’s like living here [San Diego, California]
- Deforming Form: Outlier Short Stories and How They Work
- Will, Kate & Osama: Jean Baudrillard on Royal Weddings and the Death of bin Laden
- About Face: On Class Reunions and Reading Salter
- Almost Independence Day
- On Courage
- Into the Realm of the Dark
- On a Writer Dying Young
- Childhood
- On Reverence
- First Solo
- A Boy Falling out of the Sky: Memoir
- Findler, Patrick What It’s Like Living Here — Goris, Armenia
- Fisher, Melissa My First Job [Winner of the 2012 3 Quarks Daily Arts & Literature Prize, judged by Gish Jen
- Flood, Cynthia Crossing Water: Memoir
- Fogel, Stanley ¿Que Coño Pasa? Snapshots of my Wonderful Cuban Life
- Foley, Eric Look at the Camera, A Journey through Childhood’s Photographic Space
- Fondation, Larry The Idea of a Collective Novel
- Forte, Paul Visual Thinking and Cognitive Exploration: Essay & Images
- Foss, Mark Childhood
- Frandina, Danielle What it’s like living here [San Francisco]
- Frucht, Abby Abominable
- Frutkin, Mark From Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously
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- Gál, Róbert Naked Thought: Aphorisms
- Gallix, Andrew Of Literary Bondage: Essay
- Gargiulo, Rosanna Time Control in the Personal Essay
- Garvin, Gary
- Bill
- Completing the Mies van der Rohe Brick Country House, An Odyssey
- Paris in Black and White / 1973-74
- Man in the Holocene: Point of View/point of view/Frisch
- Ridin’ the Rail: The Ending of Huckleberry Finn Revisited
- The View from the Masthead: Moby Dick Cut in Half
- Housing for the Rest of Us, A Non-Manifesto
- Heart of Darkness
- Gataveckas, Noah
- Gayraud, Joël The Shadow’s Skin: Selections Translated by S. D. Chrostowska
- Giovarelli, Renee What it’s like living here [Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan]
- Glass, Jill The Use of Moralized Cityscape in Los Angeles Literature
- Glover, Douglas
- Glover, Jacob
- Glover, Jonah
- González, Rigoberto Days of Hunger
- Gottlieb, Alma & Graham, Philip The Madman and the Seismograph: From Braided Worlds
- Grady, Wayne Tragedy Postponed: The Mystery Novel as Comedy
- Grant, Richard God’s Middle Finger: An Excerpt
- Gray, Nowick
- Greaney, Áine What Brought You Here? — Memoir
- Green, Brad
- Green, Daniel Beyond the Blurb: On Critics and Criticism | Excerpt
- Griffy, Walker Character Emotion in the Short Story: Craft Essay
- Grill, Genese
- Making Meaning I: The Categorical Imp of the Perverse
- Making Meaning: Italian Journeys
- Matter & Spirit in Conversation
- Apologia: Why Do We Write?
- Metaphor as Extratemporal Moment in Robert Musil and Marcel Proust
- Primitivisms: (Paradoxically) On Modernism
- Ethics and Aesthetics are One: The Earnestness of High Modernism in Wittgenstein and Musil
- Gunn, Genni
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- Hall, Susan Now and Then: The Binary Dimension of the Authorial Voice in Memoir | Craft Essay
- Hankey, Wayne J. Conversion: Ontological & Secular from Plato to Tom Jones
- Hanna, Julian
- Harris, Meg One Drunken Preschool Summer: Childhood
- Hartshorn, Richard
- Hemley, Robin The Columbus Syndrome Redux
- Henry, Kay In Dubai
- Heer, Jeet Canadians in the Attic (on Hugh Kenner)
- Heighton, Steven The Devil’s Dictionary for Writers
- Helberg, Natalie
- Helwig, Maggie Now the Green Blade Rises
- Hill, Tomoé
- Hiscock, Bruce An Awesome Proposal
- Hodgins, Jack
- Holz, Cynthia My First Job | Memoir
- Huntington, Cynthia The Book of the Night | Nonfiction
- Ireland, Ann
- Ismaïl, Agri (A Looting)
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- Jackson, Richard Translation, Adaptation and Transformation: The Poet as Translator
- Jacobson, J. M. After They Told Me I Had Cancer
- Johnson, Anna Maria & Steven David Johnson
- Jones, Julie Weird Plots for Strange Stories: Alternatives to Conventional Plot Structure
- Joris, Pierre
- Karasick, Adeena The Un-creation of the Wor(l)d: Conceptual Poetry as Kabbalistic Trope
- Kast, Maggie Symbols: Forest of Ambiguity
- Kaufman, Allison What it’s like living here (Connecticut)
- Kaul, Aashish Hofmannsthal’s Rose: On Form, Structure, Dialogism
- Keane, Patrick J.
- Convergences: Memories Involving The Waste Land Manuscript,
- Rintrah
- Eternal Recurrence: The Permanent Relevance of William Butler Yeats’s “The Second Coming”
- Chiaroscuro: A Memoir
- Leaving the Zoo: A Fictional Memoir
- The Senses of an Ending: The Grapes of Wrath, Novel and Film
- A Poetry of Petition: W. B. Yeats’s “The Stare’s Nest by my Window” and Derek Mahon’s “A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford”
- Mountain Visions and Imaginative Usurpations
- The Ambiguous Legacy of Nietzsche
- The Wordsworthian Sources of Emersonian “Hope” and “Light”
- On Looking Into and Beyond the Wordsworths’ Daffodils: An Intrinsic and Contextual Reading
- Keats and Identity: The Chameleon in the Crucible
- Identity and Difference: Coleridge and Defoe, Crusoe and Friday, Prospero and Caliban
- “Second Thoughts” in Seamus Heaney’s North: From “Antaeus” to “Hercules and Antaeus” to “Exposure”
- Natural Supernaturalism: Emily Dickinson’s Variations on the Romantic Theme of an Earthly Paradise
- The Pope, Charlie Hebdo, and Islamist Terrorism
- Inquiring Spirit: My Friend, Jim Cerasoli (1938-2015)
- A Great Labyrinth: The Winding Stair, Maud Gonne, and a Quest for the Quintessential Yeats
- Secretariat: A Personal Memoir
- Proto-Feminist, Trouble-Making Rebel: Hawthorne, a “Remarkable Case” & the Genesis of Hester Prynne
- Blake, Nietzsche, Wilde, and Yeats: Contraries, Anti-Selves, and the Truth of Masks
- Slouching towards Anarchy
- Emerson and Self-Reliance: Paradoxical Idea, Ambiguous Legacy
- Making the Void Fruitful: W. B. Yeats as Spiritual Seeker and Romantic Poet
- Of Beginnings and Endings: Huck Finn and Tom Eliot
- Keeble, John Imago Ignota in Dirt: A Love Story — Barbara Richardson, John Keeble & Jeanne Rogers
- Kharouf, Jacqueline Building the Maddening Dream: Techniques for Constructing & Conveying Fictional Worlds
- Kobbé, Montague Of Discrimination, Transculturalism, and the Case for Integration
- Kuitenbrouwer, Kathryn My Owls
- Kumar, Anu The Householder-Ascetic Contrast in Anita Desai’s Fiction
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- Lababidi, Yahia Flirting With Disaster: Aphorisms
- Larios, Julie
- Who Am I? What the Lowly Riddle Reveals
- Undersung | George Starbuck and the Heavy Burden of Light Verse
- Undersung | Robert Francis, Not Robert Frost
- Undersung | Marie Ponsot: Wandering Still
- Undersung| Invisible Adrien Stoutenburg
- Undersung | The Poet-Novelist: Flying Crooked Forever
- Undersung | Josephine Jacobsen: A Poet’s Poet
- Undersung | Alastair Reid: A Sunstruck Madman
- Undersung | R. F. Langley: Between Two Worlds
- Undersung | John Malcolm Brinnin: “As Well-Known as I Deserve to Be”
- Undersung | Ernst Jandl: Out on the Playground
- Undersung | Gabriela Mistral: The Archangel, The Wind
- Undersung | On the Pleasure of Slim Volumes
- A Close Look | George Herbert’s “Love (III)”
- Undersung | Michelangelo’s Aching Back
- Lea, Sydney
- Lee, Whitney Exercises — with Tracy Proctor, Megan Okkerse, & Sheela Clary
- Lefer, Diane
- What it’s like living here [Los Angeles]
- Writing Instruction as a Social Practice: or What I Did (and Learned) in Barrancabermeja
- Letter From Bolivia: Days and Nights in Cochabamba
- Letter from Bolivia: Carnaval de Oruro
- Turning the Page: Essay/Community Activism
- Provocations: Essay on Northern Ireland
- Ain’t We Got Fun: War, Video Games, and the Nonviolence Playbook
- Lemay, Shawna The Flower Can Always Be Changing: Essay & Photographs
- Lerena, María Jesús Hernáez
- Levé, Edouard Autoportrait
- Lillo, Erin The Voice inside the Voice | Character Thought in the First Person Novel
- Lindholdt, Paul What It’s Like Living Here (Spokane)
- Livadas, Yannis The Poetry of Antimetathesis: Essay
- Levine, Roberta My First Job | The Hematology Clinic
- Loecher, Anne From Smallness to Greatness: The Forgotten Poetry of Lorine Niedecker
- Low, Denise Optical Structures in The Shrubberies: Ronald Johnson’s Cascades
- Lucarelli, Jason
- Lupinetti, Mark Where Are Today’s Steinbecks?
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- M., Sarah & Bernard Hœpffner Starts With a Bang… Ends In a Whisper | An Epistolary Romance
- Maierhofer, Grant Peripatet
- mclennan, rob Life Is Too Short For A Long Story
- Madden, Patrick
- Maillard, Keith
- Marchand, Philip Tainted Success and the Heroes of Martin Scorsese
- Marden, Julie There’s a Theme for You (on thematic passage technique in Chekhov short stories)
- Marten, Harry Healing Waters: Memoir
- Martin, Cynthia Newberry
- Martin, Rebecca Techniques of Emotional Representation and the Construct of the Self in Three Short Stories
- Martin, Rick Childhood: Essay in Writing Myself
- Masciandaro, Nicola Mad for Sorrow: Time, the Demon, & Being (at One’s Wits’ End) in the Cloud of Knowing
- Matthewson, Melissa Ten Ways To Leave
- May, Lucy M. This is a Dance: Essay & Dance Images
- May, Stephen Beauty & the Brothel of Illustration: An Impractical Guide to Making Art
- McCahill, Kate
- Merrigan, Court
- Merritt, Donigan What it like living here [Patagonia, Argentina]
- Mihálycsa, Erika
- Milan, Joe
- Mirsky, Mark Jay The Anxiety of Laughter: An Essay on Reading Dante
- Mooney, Martin Uimhir a Cúig | Moorfield Street: Prose Fragments
- Moore, Steven The Avant-Pop Novels of J. P. McEvoy | Essay
- Motte, Warren
- Mulhallen, Karen My Life in Clothes & Books, a Memoir
- Mullins, Gwen
- Mullins, Hilary
- Musil, Robert Speed is Witchy! & Intensivism — Translated by Genese Grill
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- Nancy, Jean Luc with Adèle van Reeth Coming: Excerpt
- Neuhouser, Joshua Numero Cinqo: Excavating Stridentopolis
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- Ogene, Timothy The Promise of Intimacy | ask anyone: The Poetry of Ruth Lepson
- Okkerse, Megan Exercises — with Tracy Proctor, Sheela Clary & Whitney Lee
- Olding, Susan A Rake’s Progress
- Oliveira, Robin
- Olsen, William On the Prayerful in Poetry
- Pang-Chung, Yeniffer What It’s Like Living Here [Depok, Cisompet, Jawa Barat, Indonesia]
- Paul, Jacob David Grossman’s See Under: Love
- Perilli, Paul 36 Eddy Street | Childhood
- Pines, Paul
- Powell, Garry Craig How to Write an Essay
- Proctor, John
- Proctor, Tracy Exercises — with Megan Okkerse, Sheela Clary & Whitney Lee
- Promislow, Dawn Through leaded panes | Memoir
- Quarmby, Lynne
- Quist, Donald What It’s Like Living Here (Bangkok)
- Qwul`thilum (Dylan Thomas) Sacred Geometry: Essay & Art
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- Raffel, Dawn
- Ramsay, Heather What It’s Like Living Here — Ryder Lake, BC
- Reuther, Kate What it’s like living here (a charticle) [New York]
- Rickert, Mary Angel on Fire: The Gothic World of Sophie’s Choice
- Richardson, Barbara “The God of Dirt” in Dirt: A Love Story — Barbara Richardson, John Keeble & Jeanne Rogers
- Richardson, Frank The Art of the Long Sentence
- Rivard, David Foreign Bodies: Gottfried Benn, Patrizia Cavalli, and the Situation of Translation
- Rogers, Jeanne “Sinking down into Heaven” in Dirt: A Love Story — Barbara Richardson, John Keeble & Jeanne Rogers
- Roney, Lisa What It’s Like Living Here (Orlando)
- Ross, Rob Stray Dog Poetics: Found Poetry from Shane Rhodes
- Roy, Shambhavi Emotion of Multitudes: Subplots in Novels
- Russell, Laura-Rose There’s a Reason They Call it Show AND Tell: How to Reveal Thoughts, Emotions, and Motivations Without Sentimentality
- Rykov, Mary H. Auerbach My First Job
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- Saporito, Jean-Marie
- Sarkissian, Natalia
- What it’s like living here [Milan]
- What it’s like living here [Milan]
- Quality Time on the Bay of Silence
- Sestri Levante
- Missing Dad
- A Letter from Italy
- On the Hunt for Elusive Literary Game: the Premio Bagutta, Italy’s Oldest Literary Prize
- Sabah Al Khair Habibti
- Egypt After the Revolution
- My First Job
- Egypt After the Revolution 2
- The Sky Is Red at Bordeaux
- Tahrir Square, August 2011
- Siena’s Palio: A Medieval Horserace Turns Viral
- Postcards from Italy: Lake Como
- L’Immacolata: The Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Liguria, Italy
- The Feast of Sacrifice: Eid-al-Adha at Alexandria, Egypt
- Naguib Mahfouz, Palace Walk, and Old Cairo
- Gauteng and the Cape Peninsula: Encountering South Africa
- Revisiting Tahrir Square: Photographs & Text
- Highs & Lows on the Bay of Fundy
- The 19th Century & Milan’s Duomo: A Collage of Impressions and Photographs
- Death By Oranges: Ivrea at Carnival
- Abused in the Alps: Text & Photographs
- Boar Hunting in Tuscany: Text & Photographs
- How to Sightsee in France with your Teenage Son: Text & Photographs
- Schatte, Michael The Provenance of Song: Original Music & Essay
- Scott, Sophfronia
- Sdrigotti, Fernando
- Seltzer, Sarah What it’s like living here [New York]
- Selway, Shawn What It’s Like Living Here [Hamilton, Ontario] Ontario
- Shapiro, Shelagh What it’s like living here [Burlington, Vermont]
- Sheehy, Eamonn Uimhir a Cúig | Excerpts from Stealing A Life: Memoir
- Shklovsky, Viktor From Bowstring: On the Dissimilarity of the Similar by Viktor Shklovsky, Translated by Shushan Avagyan
- Sholl, Betsy The Dark Speech of Silence Laboring: Osip Mandelstam’s Poems & Translations
- Sierra, Germán Deep Media Fiction
- Simpson, Thomas
- Skinner, Richard A. J. Greimas in Alice Munro’s “Jakarta”: Essay on Story Structure
- Sledmere, Maria Love Letter from the Anthropocene
- Smith, Jordan The Battleship of Maine
- Sparks, Stephen What It’s Like Living Here [San Francisco]
- Spitzer, D. M. Mythology: A Response to Ralph Angel’s “The Exile and Return of Poetry”
- Stagg, Erin
- Stansberry, Domenic
- Stasiuk, Andrzej Rite of Spring from Dukla
- Stein, Mary
- Stolton, Samuel Plato, Heidegger, Kant & Habermas Play Pass the Parcel: Poiesis and the Philosophy of Art-Creation
- Stone, Bruce
- Storring, Nathan The Struggle for the Centre: One City’s Adventure With Modernity
- Strom, Dao Triangulations from the Diaspora: Childhood
- Sutin, Lawrence
- Theis, Leona Childhood: Five Wonders
- Thomas, Elizabeth
- Trimingham, Julie
- Bunkong Tuon On Fathers, Losses, and Other Influences
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- Ullman, Leslie
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- VanBaale, Kali Farm Crisis Kid: A Midwest Childhood
- Vivian, Robert
- Volke, Liam What It’s Like Living Here (Victoria, British Columbia)
- Von Rosk, Laura
- Voorsanger, Wendy Searching for a Literary Burning Man
- Warrell, Laura K.
- Westra, Adam
- Westra, Haijo & Adam Douglas Glover’s Elle: A Menippean Satire
- Westra, Haijo Farewell to Canada: Marc Lescarbot’s A-Dieu à la Nouvelle-France (1607) | Essay & Translation
- Whetter, Darryl ‘His Word against Mine’: Envy, Friendship and the Novel
- Whitney, Diana Kissing
- Wilder, Cheryl What it’s like living here [Raleigh, North Carolina]
- Winter-Schorr, Tiara
- Wikswo, Quintan Ana Nonagon For The Dead Who Are Rising | A Polygon With Nine Sides All Opened
- Working, Russell
- The Roommate: Vladivostok & the Ghost of Mandelstam
- Zola’s Horse: Using a Reporter’s Techniques to Strengthen Fiction and Creative Nonfiction
- The World Aristocratic Governor of the Year: Report From Vladivostok
- The Frogless Dark: Peering into the Hermit Kingdom
- Alice Munro’s “Baptising” & James Joyce’s “The Dead” | Plotting with Multiple Antagonists