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Staying close to friends isn’t always easy. From calling out flakiness to singing together in a choir, experts share their advice on how to keep the spark alive

 

Melissa Febos is the writer we need right now. Her writing is alternately a balm, a barricade and a bombastic refusal to remain mired in shame.

Illinois wants to end federal oversight for care of its residents with disabilities, but advocates say it's needed more than ever. Plus, adoptees have a right to their history. And more.

Adults need to relax and do nothing together, just like kids do.

This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.

The book tells the story of why we dont get enough rest, and how we can get more of it in a time when so many of us are feeling burned out.

What is the best way to quiet your mind? Answer by Ximena Vengoechea, author of Rest Easy.

Shortly after 10 am on Saturday, July 29, Lake Forest Park unveiled its honorary street for Octavia Butler, a writer who spent the last seven years of her life in the city between Kenmore and Seattle's Lake City. Butler moved here from Southern California in 1999. She bought a simple but cozy-looking house at the top of a hill and near three things she could not live without: a nearby bus stop, a nearby bookstore,...

Shelia Liming | The biggest writer I ever knew was, in all likelihood, the biggest and most important writer I’ll ever know. But I didn’t realize this at the time. I was sixteen, and all I understood was that the woman who had bought the place across the street from my parents’ in Lake Forest…