Exploring subjects from skateboarding to Sylvia Plath, and attempting to write your first novel to jumping into the sea, these are some of our favorite essays we published this year. *Ranked in no particular order*
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This Is What Happens To Your Heart When You Dive Into The Sea — James Nestor
James Nestor, author of DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves, takes us on a transformative journey into the ocean.
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Try To Leave Me If You Can — Katherine Faw Morris
Katherine Faw Morris, author of Young God, on returning to her impoverished home in Wilkes County, North Carolina.
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Not Here to Make Friends — Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay, author of An Untamed State and Bad Feminist, on the importance of unlikable female protagonists.
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