Archive - Practicing

Ontological Marathon

A few months ago, a beloved former student offered to get me a bib for the New York marathon.

Jul 26 •

Lynn Steger Strong

Over a few months my sophomore year of college, I spent a good amount of time in the office of a dean who was trying to kick me out.

Jul 14 •

Lynn Steger Strong

May 2025

On Mothering and Writing Books

Don’t have a lot left in the tank right now, but our younger kid turned eleven this week (I sent this piece a week or so before our older turned…

May 11 •

Lynn Steger Strong

April 2025

Almost exactly twenty years ago, I moved to New York to be a writer, having no idea at all what that meant.

Apr 7 •

Lynn Steger Strong

March 2025

Miyoko Ito, Untitled 126, 1970, Untitled, 1970

Mar 30 •

Lynn Steger Strong

Andrew Martin: Fiction with Teeth

I’m writing to you all from my couch, rattled, terrified.

Mar 22 •

Lynn Steger Strong

(a brief caveat to say: this piece is about “Sonny’s Blues,” which I have written to you about before; I love this story; I could write to you about it…

Mar 19 •

Lynn Steger Strong

Legibility and Cake

Wayne Theibaud, “Folsom Street Fair Cake,” Crocker Art Museum, 2013.

Mar 10 •

Lynn Steger Strong

February 2025

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