The Names Women Left Behind: What Surnames Reveal About the Stories We Almost Lost
Nancy Polk Hall on what surnames — especially the ones women gave up — reveal about forgotten histories, and why she researches names as obsessively as she researches events.
The Letters We Keep: What My Grandmother’s Weekly Correspondence Taught Me About Memory
An essay on weekly letter-writing, family archives, and the framed letter by my dressing table — how handwritten mail shaped the way I write fiction.