Lynn Steger Strong

Lynn Steger Strong is the author of the novels Flight, Want and Hold Still.

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Why I Stopped Running to Win

I have never felt as strong or powerful as I do now

By Lynn Steger Strong

Molly Shannon Is as Real as Ever in Her Charming Memoir Hello, Molly!

There is a moment, about halfway through Molly Shannon’s incredibly charming memoir, Hello, Molly!, that stopped me in my tracks. After describing years of striving in show business, then finally making Saturday Night Live, Shannon...

By Lynn Steger Strong

Joan Didion Didn't Offer Us Answers

Cool is the word used most often to describe her: the Coca-Colas and the cigarettes each morning, the leotard and the typewriter, the scotch and the shawl. California. Writing for the movies to make a...

By Lynn Steger Strong

Have I Lost My Selves Outside Motherhood?

I went on a walk with a friend the other day. He’s a writer. I am too. We were talking about books, which is our favorite thing to talk about. He’d come to meet me,...

By Lynn Steger Strong

Groups Texts Have Become a Lifeline for Women

When S got COVID, letting us know on a group text we had mostly used before to schedule dinners, we all texted her privately to tell her she’d be fine, to comfort her, to ask...

By Lynn Steger Strong
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