“Accommodating the dead, like accommodating the living, has always entailed a head-on collision with the awkward reality that we have a finite amount of physical space.” Okay, yes, sure, maybe you weren’t expecting a quote about dead bodies to kick off your Friday morning. But I assure you that our new feature, “Disneyland of the […]
Episode highlights from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, featuring The Chronology of Water author Lidia Yuknavitch.
Complicating a “mixed blessing” of the opioid crisis: a rise in organ donations.
On finding joy in the writing process, embracing friction, and developing your voice.
“In the punt on the river in the cave, beneath the dim light of glowing worms, it was thoughts of my own death that consumed me.”
“What is it, precisely, that you work for? What real goodness do you seek at the end of your own long line? “
In this edition: the jaws of history; war and piece(s); the last day of camp; stay a while; picture me rollin’.
“On a summer morning in 1990, the body of a young woman appeared in a small town close to the frontier. For those who saw her, finding her identity became an obsession that would last 30 years.”
When I was 10 or so, my grandmother came to stay with us for what my parents called “a while.” Longer than a visit, shorter than getting your mail forwarded.
“The relationships, abundance, and reciprocity of nature’s economy.”
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