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Life Stories

"My Favorite Murder;" "Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows" by Balli Kaur Jaswal; "The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters" by Balli Kaur Jaswal (Wikimedia/Harper Collins)

A murder podcast helped me write again

Balli Kaur Jaswal
(Getty/oleg66)

Dance class made me the man I am today

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Photography by Jill Greenberg, jillgreenberg.com. Find out more about Jill's initiative Alreadymade., a mission to hire more female photographers and content creators at alreadymade.org.

Pete Holmes on comedy, sex and God

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/demaerre)

"Therapy is for white people"

D. Watkins
Pete Buttigieg and husband Chasten Glezman (Getty/Salon)

The belief that burns in me

Silas House

A physicist's revelation about religion

Terence Mickey
Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson in "Room" (A24)

Mourning my mother and reading "Room"

Rachel Mack
(Getty/Rhona Wise)

Toxic masculinity, our chronic illness

Erin Keane
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand; Libertarian stickers that were handed out are seen at the National Libertarian Party Convention, Friday, May 27, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. (AP/John Raoux/Signet)

My regrettable libertarian romance

David Masciotra
(Getty/chickaz)

The working poor in the Hamptons

Jason Allen
(Getty/IPGGutenbergUKLtd)

Plight of hoop stars who don’t go pro

D. Watkins
Open bible in church (Getty/coldsnowstorm)

My priest was an accused abuser

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Getty/tatyana_tomsickova)

A C-section saved my life, and my baby’s

Elizabeth Noll
Dancers (Getty/best-photo)

The last time I danced

Rachel Leah
(Salon Talks)

Why I'm never leaving the hood

D. Watkins
"All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir" by Erin Lee Carr (Penguin Random House/Stephanie Geddes)

Erin Lee Carr on her moment of reckoning

Erin Keane
(Getty/mrstam)

How to engage with the "trash" discourse

D. Watkins
"Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type" by Paul D. Tieger; "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain (Broadway Books/Little, Brown Spark)

The book that changed Susan Cain's life

Terence Mickey
(Getty/Salon)

Please don't hug me

D. Watkins
Firefighters place the body of a third victim of the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion on a cart at New York's Bellevue Hospital, March 14, 1970. (AP Photo/TC)

The fire angels of Avenue B

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Old Rusty Car (Getty Images/ethanfink)

Growing up poor, with shaming looks

Dave Patterson
Nirvana performs live at The Roxy in Hollywood, CA on August 15, 1991. (AP/Kevin Estrada)

I'm not like them, but I can pretend

Aaron Burch
(Getty/Wavebreakmedia)

Wearing someone else's scrubs

Mary Laura Philpott
(Getty/wwing)

Life after fundamentalist Christianity

Julia Bainbridge - The Lonely Hour
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