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  • The Book That Defined My Teen Anxiety Turned Out to Be a Lie

    The sobering message of "Go Ask Alice" had a huge effect on my life—and then I found out the real story

    May 22 - Sloane Tanen
    Novel Gazing Empty Alice in Wonderland dress

    How William Styron Kept Me Alive

    "Darkness Visible" was the only book I took into the mental hospital, and it was the book that brought me out

    May 14 - Greg Cwik
    Novel Gazing

    Going from Cocaine to Novels, with the Help of “Novel with Cocaine”

    This mysterious Russian fictionalized drug memoir spurred me to rethink my past—and write a new kind of character

    Apr 23 - E.P. Floyd
    Novel Gazing Lines of white powder on a mirror

    “Group” Therapy

    Growing up, finally, with Mary McCarthy's 1954 novel "The Group"

    Apr 9 - Abigail Weil
    Novel Gazing Four friends in 1930s bathing costumes running over a sand dune

    What’s a Book That Changed Your Mind?

    For Novel Gazing, submit your essays on the stories that shifted your opinion

    Mar 7 - Jess Zimmerman
    Novel Gazing

    The Book That Nearly Drowned Me

    What happened when I went searching for magic underwater

    Dec 10 - Elisabeth Hewer
    Novel Gazing

    The Skeletons Tangled Under Our Feet

    Reading Paul Monette’s AIDS memoir helped me figure out how to move forward after my boyfriend’s death

    Nov 5 - Greg Marshall
    Novel Gazing

    What’s a Book That Almost Killed You?

    For Novel Gazing, tell us about a story that put you in mortal peril

    Sep 6 - Jess Zimmerman
    Novel Gazing

    The Past Is a Planet You Can’t Return To

    How “The Little Prince” helped me let my childhood die

    Aug 28 - Melanie Bui Larsen
    Novel Gazing
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