Talking Writing Magazine

Dear Madeleine Albright

Open Letter by Susan Terris

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

It All Comes Back to Joan Didion

Memorial Essay by Martha Nichols

I miss her already, that’s the thing. I’ve been expecting to miss her for a long time.

Video: Path Integral

Multimedia Feature by Alice Major and Jean Wolff

I want to poke around inside the brain, unroll the wrinkled cortex into a flat, creased sponge and map anger’s coordinates.

Author Talk: David Biddle

Video Interview by John Vogel

From an early stage, I was more interested in reading and writing and messing around with music than either of my siblings.

More Girl Than Girl

Novel Excerpt by David Biddle

Help us understand what you think we don't.

Prerequisite

Poetry by Wendy Brown-Baez

As if you had claimed your voice before it was silenced.

About the Man Who Kept a Silver Nail File

Flash Nonfiction by Susan Terris

The man who once stood on a chair was also the one who took me skating with him every Saturday morning when I was a girl.

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