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Nonfiction

Story of the Week
How I Feel about You
by Various Authors
It was more fun to get drunk with a friend than with a lover.
Nonfiction
How Sex Feels: A Reverie
by Frank Conroy
He begins to realize that the impossible event may well be about to occur.
Story of the Week
I Did Like Butter
by Pia Z. Ehrhardt
It had always been this way. Mothering, for my mother, was a cameo role.
Story of the Week
I Escape from the Boers
by Winston Churchill
I was free. The first step had been taken, and it was irrevocable.
Nonfiction
I Long to Kiss You: Napoli in the Time of Coronavirus
by Heather Hartley
She looked at him with sorrow, and surprise, despite all the news.
Story of the Week
Ice Fishing
by Rick Bass
I’m just wired hard for hunting, and not so much at all for fishing.
Nonfiction
If You Can’t Say Anything Nice, Write a One-Star Review
by Jane Lancellotti
No author dodged readers who were indifferent to masterpieces.
Story of the Week
In London Town
by Bill Barich
Part of my desire to be in London related to its writers.
Nonfiction
In Love
by Amy Bloom
Those moments are all I want. I want a life of this. He sighs and I sigh.
Story of the Week
In Passing
by Ru Freeman
The ashes of a human being are not ash. The body burns into wood.
Story of the Week
In Search of Inner Mongolia
by Daniel Chernin
“I want to stay in real yurts,” I said, “not yurts for Westerners.”
Nonfiction
In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters
by Joyce Carol Oates
“Happy? Nabokov died yesterday, we all move up a notch.”
Story of the Week
Interlude at Daofu
by Scott Ezell
Daofu was a cluster of lights bubbling up in the belly of a darkened plain.
Nonfiction
Intimacy. Anger.
by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Together we invented intimacy, both its benefits and its horrors.
Story of the Week
Into the After
by Renée Thompson
I wondered if the coyotes and deer were mourning the loss of Steve.
Story of the Week
Ipi Ntombi
by Felicity Stone
The sounds of Africa exploded around the white men and women.
Story of the Week
Is It Okay to Be Okay Again?
by Marc Kaufman
We know that we were lied to, the disaster was worse than we feared.
Fall Contest Winners
Izola
by Russell Working
Who cared about a whiff of male exertion and motor oil? Not Lana.
Nonfiction
I’ll Take Best Picture, Please
by David Thomson
They believed that the American movie should be taken seriously.
Interviews
Jayne Anne Phillips
by Jayne Anne Phillips
Whether or not I’m working on the book, the book is working on me.
Interviews
Jayne Anne Phillips Remembers Sam Lawrence
by Jayne Anne Phillips
Jayne Anne Phillips recalls her friend, the legendary Sam Lawrence.
Interviews
Jennifer Egan
by Jennifer Egan
I’ve wavered in confidence, but never on whether I was going to write.
Nonfiction
Jerusalem According to Cats
by Josip Novakovich
A friend said she hated the State of Israel because it killed her cat.
Story of the Week
John Barth, Undergraduate Academic Adviser
by John Balaban
Barth looked after his students beyond anything expected of him.
Interviews
John Lescroart
by John Lescroart
Story of the Week
Journey to Kars
by Aleksandr Pushkin
In a few days the troops were to go further on. I left the next day.
Interviews
Junot Díaz
by Junot Díaz
One of the most important human capacities is compassion.
Nonfiction
Justice
by John Casey
Do we hunger after conflict as much as we hunger after justice?
Nonfiction
Kickflip
by Neal Thompson
“This is no vacation,” I told friends and reluctant donors.
Winter Contest Winners
Landscapes with Lester
by Abe Louise Young
I made him love me. To feel abandonment—again.