“Moving is among the most stressful things Americans ever experience—not least because it often involves extortion,” writes Marshall Poe. Check out his essay, “You Gotta Move,” about the shadiest operation in town.

Last week, we published Kipp Friedman’s “Life With Father,” about the author’s year with his recently divorced father in late-1970s New York City. We asked him a few questions his father, his son, and his relationship with the city in which he was raised.

When Kipp Friedman was 16 years old, he moved in with his father, the novelist and playwright Bruce Jay Friedman. Be sure to check out the second part of “Life with Father” here.

When Kipp Friedman was 16 years old, he moved in with his father, the novelist and playwright Bruce Jay Friedman. In “Life with Father,” he writes about coming of age in center of the New York arts scene.

Lists are all the rage these days, so with Valentine’s Day right around the corner, we want your love lists. Unrequited crushes, biggest embarrassments in bed, what you want—or really don’t want—in your next relationship. Click here and start listing.

Some people keep journals. Stacy Abramson makes lists. The sum of her life with bullet points and photographs is just as revealing as a 2,000-word essay. Read her piece, “My Life in Lists,” and make a list of your own.

Access your inner angst, sneak a cigarette in the boys’ bathroom, and then ready your clicking finger for two totally different peeks at the inner workings of the high school mind. On the NQWIWP blog, South Texas teens display the original artwork they created for their own Six-Word Memoir gallery. In Memoirville, indie publishing hero [...]

Kevin Sampsell is one of those guys so in line with SMITH’s ideals, we want to put him in our collective pocket and take him home. He’s runs a small press, works at an independent bookstore, and writes intensely personal true stories. Thus far, we’ve had to settle for sharing root beers with him in [...]

The follow is an excerpt from Pretty is What Changes: Impossible Choices, the Breast Cancer Gene, and How I Defied My Destiny by Jessica Queller. Read Rebecca Paoletti’s interview with Queller.
“I’d fallen down the rabbit hole and decks of cards were talking. As if the logic and rules of my universe had suddenly changed. [...]

An excerpt from Camp Camp: Where Fantasy Island Meets Lord of the Flies, a big book of essays, photos, and braces edited by Roger Bennett and Jules Shell. Read more about the people behind Camp Camp here.
“We filed into the mess hall. I looked hopefully for the rebels. There they were, sitting like sisters at [...]