Are your relatives and friends urging you to share your life experiences? Would you like to capture your memories on the page? Written reflections on life and memories can create social connections ...

When I was in my twenties I put writers on a pedestal, believing that writing is an exertion of power. I still largely feel this way because in our present time, where attention is fleeting, to be ...

So one day while I was supposed to be writing, I was goofing off on Twitter and spotted a post from Summer Brennan, a Paris-based nonfiction writer. She was offering a free essay camp, which I dubbed ...

In January, longtime NewsHour essayist Roger Rosenblatt returned to our studio to talk about his new book on a subject that many of our viewers and readers hold dear. Unless It Moves The Human Heart: ...

Since 2002 I have written somewhere in the neighborhood of 500 articles and blog posts for various publications. This one is my 109th Email Insider column. I had planned to use my 100th Email Insider ...

Editor's Note: See Randy Fox's story this week on Grimey's Too, and his past stories on Phonoluxe, The Great Escape, Ernest Tubb and The Groove. A little less than a year ago I began writing about ...