For-Profit Schools from the Students’ Perspective
Talk about good timing: on the same day we posted Stephen S. Mills’s essay about working for a for-profit school, Racialicious reposted an essay looking at the issue from the other side.In it, Tressie...
View ArticleStraight Bobs and Silk Shells: Performing Respectability
Previously, we blogged about an essay on students in for-profit schools that happened to coincide with Stephen S. Mills’s Rumpus essay about employees of for-profit schools.That essay’s author,...
View ArticleNotable Los Angeles: 2/25–3/3
Monday 2/25: Megan Griswold discusses and signs The Book of Help: A Memoir in Remedies. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Tuesday 2/26: Publisher Roundable with Kaya, Moontide, Tia Chucha, Red Hen, and...
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Being in the Room: Talking with Kendra Allen
It is easy to understand how Kendra Allen’s debut essay collection, When You Learn the Alphabet, won the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. What is less comprehensible is that Allen won the prize...
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Leveling Up: A Conversation with Lyz Lenz
Lyz Lenz’s debut God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America, just released last week from Indiana University Press, is a unique approach to the many stories of people leaving the...
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What to Read When: A Holiday Book-Gifting Guide
Last week, Aubrey Nolan offered up illustrated book-gifting recommendations for children. This week, we’re turning our attention to the 18+ crowd. We’ve asked our editors to give us their favorite...
View ArticleThis Week in Essays
At Catapult, Christine H. Lee writes on the challenges of hen management—and the similarities in animal and human hierarchies. For Vanity Fair, Betty Gilpin shares her own frustrations with the...
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What to Read When You Want to Think about Survival
I’ve thought a lot about survival over the last five years or so. All that thinking led to writing, but I didn’t realize that I was thinking and writing about survival for an embarrassingly long time....
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