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A Brief History of Rogue
Glenn Wichman, co-creator of Rogue, recounts how the 1980 dungeon crawler was built on Unix machines at UC Santa Cruz an…
An Accidental Statistician
George E.P. Box tells how he stumbled into statistics while working on poison gas experiments in wartime Britain, a char…
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Education
Before the Soul Dawn
Helen Keller's own 1908 account of her life before self-consciousness awoke, a remarkable first-person description of wh…
Bettye Kronstad on Lou Reed's Berlin
Lou Reed's first wife Bettye Kronstad recalls the dark 1973 making of his album Berlin and how private details of their…
Child Catchers
A literary nonfiction essay by Josh McColough that begins with the boxes of childhood artifacts his parents hand him to…
Confessions of a Once-Bearded Lady
A frank personal essay by a woman who began growing a beard at fourteen, about hiding it, shaving it and living with a b…
Elan School
A gripping, free webcomic memoir by Joe Nobody about his years in Elan School, a notorious Maine behaviour-modification…
Fan Fiction
Fan Fiction is a self-published zine by Tavi Gevinson, a sly and confessional mix of Taylor Swift fandom and memoir, fre…
Greg Afloat
A boating biography spanning the 1950s to the 2020s on the canals, rivers and Broads of the UK, with trip logs, old phot…
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Internet Culture
Hyperbole and a Half
Allie Brosh's illustrated blog of crudely drawn but brilliantly told stories about childhood, dogs, depression and the a…
I Pitched a Roller Coaster to Disneyland at Age 10
A warm personal story of a ten-year-old who mailed a roller coaster idea to Disneyland in 1978 and what happened next, t…
If I Knew Then
A collection of advice to younger generations written by members of Harvard Business School's Class of 1963, reflecting…
If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off
A warm and funny tribute from a son to his late father, listing the life lessons he taught, from belly-button warnings t…
Inglenook Lit
An online literary magazine of memoir and magical realism, with fairy-tale essays, short stories, interviews and book re…
Jack Spratt's Vietnam Story
A first-hand personal account of Navy swift boat service in Vietnam in 1970, with photographs and recollections kept on…
Losing Sight
Accessibility expert Leonie Watson writes a candid first-person account of losing her sight over a few months, and of le…
Moxie Marlinspike - Stories
Short, wry personal stories by the Signal creator about sailing, hat bands, odd jobs and learning things the hard way, w…
My Life in Weeks
Gina Trapani's life drawn as a grid of weeks from birth onward, with each week annotated by where she lived, what she ma…
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Entertainment
Sincerely, John Hughes
A woman recounts how a teenage fan letter turned into a years-long pen-pal friendship with filmmaker John Hughes, and wh…
Ten Years in Silicon Alley
Literary Kicks founder Levi Asher recounts his decade as a developer and web pioneer in New York's Silicon Alley, from t…
The Gradual Extinction of Softness
A memoir essay by Chantha Nguon about learning to cook rice as a child in Cambodia, and how food, family and loss intert…
The Hidden Cassettes
A personal audio piece sharing excerpts from phone calls the author's father secretly recorded on cassette, an intimate…
The Other Epidemic
A long first-person essay about the author's struggle to get off benzodiazepines, mixing memoir, medical history and a f…
The Universal Turing Machine
A collective memoir of Alan Turing by novelist Richard Beard, told through the voices of people and objects that crossed…
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