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A total joy to talk with @zoeschlanger.bsky.socialwww.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/16/a...

In ‘The Light Eaters,’ Zoë Schlanger digs into the world of botany - The Boston Globe

The Atlantic reporter seeds new appreciation for plants, as well as those who study them.

I wrote about Becca Rothfeld’s glorious new(ish) book of essays, “All Things Are Too Small.” themillions.com/2024/05/becc...

Becca Rothfeld's Exuberant Ode to the Risks of Rapture

There is no experience of longing that is not, at the same time, an ethical revelation.

I reviewed Margo Steines's heart-stopping memoir "Brutalities: A Love Story" for The Millions. Go get yourself a copy! (of Margo's memoir, not my review). themillions.com/2024/02/the-...

Happy to see my 1st attempt at memoir writing published in the LARB as a reflection on my experience of writing My Dark Room. This post is a vehicle to thank the gifted writers & editors who helped me bring it out: @ellenws.bsky.social@elspethme.bsky.social@thisblue.bsky.social

Inside My Dark Room | Los Angeles Review of Books

Julie Park reflects on the process of bringing out her book on the 18th-century camera obscura....

Does a roughly chronological memoir-in-essays count?

I'll be covering 2024 memoirs for Esquire! Book publicists are welcome to pitch me *2024 memoirs only* at nicole.sc.chung at gmail dot com

While I was writing my craft book, I compiled this working list, and now I bequeath it to you (via @assayjournal.bsky.socialassayjournal.wordpress.com/2023/11/08/r...

Reading List: Lyric Essay Craft & Criticism

Thanks to Heidi Czerwiec for this list! Books that focus on the lyric essay: The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins, ed. Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold (Wayne State UP, 2023): includes...

Not like any of us are really here much, but I wanted to tell y'all that I'm thankful for you. I feel like I've lost a whole community since Twitter launched itself into the sun, but still, still- I love you weirdos from afar. ❤️

"Not the odds, but the stakes..." is my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in campaign coverage. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. I have been floating this phrase since March. This week it took off a bit, after CNN wrote about it.

Journalism professor’s six-word mantra is a blueprint for how news outlets should cover the 2024 r...

NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen implores newsrooms to organize 2024 campaign coverage around the stakes of the presidential contest — not the horse race.