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“To move in spin class only for the sake of moving, of the joyful challenge itself, of sweating and pushing and dancing, is cool water in my throat. To be loved, simply for showing up, is pure golden sun in my chest.” Happy Friday and welcome to (unofficial) autumn! If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere […]
“I was too young to remember what happened to my dad, and no one explained it to me. So I tried to assemble the story myself.”
“Decades after her mother was killed, Regina Alexander reached out to the son of the people who did it.”
In this excerpt from The Creative Nonfiction Podcast, host Brendan O’Meara talks to Seyward Darby about “Fault Lines,” her Atavist writing debut.
“When a homeless man attacked a former city official, footage of the onslaught became a rallying cry. Then came another video, and another—and the story turned inside out.”
“Walker was cut off mid-pitch by a producer who asked if she was talking about another ‘poor Indian’ story.”
“Frank DePalma. . . . found comfort in the absence of light.”
Stories about wrongful convictions open our eyes to systemic injustices in the U.S. court system. Maurice Chammah, a staff writer at The Marshall Project, compiles his recommended longreads within the genre.
“The world was shocked by the lurid details of his murder, but his loved ones would rather remember his life.”
“Good people, she felt, end up doing bad things for many reasons.”
