Fame

Dear Madeleine Albright

Mar 24, 2022

Open Letter by Susan Terris

TW salutes Madeleine Albright (1937–2022) as a role model for women in government.

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Your Baby's Ugly

May 17, 2021

Essay by Joan Frank

People bring unknowable baggage to their readings—and to the author herself.

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Darling Nikki

Oct 05, 2020

Comic Feature by Alicia Augeri

I see Mars on TV.

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Dear Taylor Swift (and Other White Feminists)

Sep 12, 2016

Open Letter by Lorraine Berry

I don’t believe we get to pick and choose whose struggle for civil rights we align ourselves with.

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Some Failed Nocturnes for Sylvia Plath

Sep 12, 2016

Hybrid Poetry by Marie Chambers

Verbs begin to spiral from her mouth and coil outward into the sky.

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Not Looking Stupid While Talking to Neil Gaiman

Mar 11, 2013

Theme Essay by J.p. Lawrence

My reporter face is hard, but inside I am quaky. Neil Gaiman, after all, is a hero of mine.

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Giving Stephen King Another Chance

Feb 11, 2013

Theme Essay by Wendy Glaas

His work has entered my psyche thoroughly, like tentacles from his nightmarish creations.

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Fame, Fortune, and a Purposeful Life

Feb 08, 2013

TW Column by Steven Lewis

My father was not impressed with my first triumphant literary efforts, nor with the staple-bound magazines in which they appeared: Modine Gunch and Road Apple Review.

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Elizabeth Bishop at Harvard

Jan 21, 2013

Theme Essay by Robert Boucheron

Her idea of the poet was old-fashioned—a custodian of language.

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Writing and the Joy of Obscurity

Jan 14, 2013

Editor's Note by Martha Nichols

While a love of gossip is part of the human condition, there’s another aspect to contemporary fame that’s raised the stakes for all of us.

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