Two friends, Hurricane Katrina, a suicide, and the pain and beauty that holds us all together.
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Posted inNonfiction
A Bike Race, Family, and Loss
“We took turns sitting beside my dad and holding his hand. On the TV in the living room, the Tour raced.”
Posted inFeature
I Remember Arthur
A writer examines his own depression and suicidal ideation after losing an enigmatic friend and a deeply personal book draft.
Posted inReading List
Long Live the Rom-Com
Love, Actually, Never Died: A reading list on the evolution of the romantic comedy.
Posted inNonfiction
My Grandmother’s Dark Secret
The music emanating from a storefront church in Brooklyn was a death knell: Once my grandmother heard it, her childhood was over.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Bees In My Brain
“I’d sometimes wonder if my dad had bees of his own. Little creatures that spoke to him in his native tongue, telling him he wasn’t good enough, too.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Chasing My Father’s Ghost Through the Swiss Alps
James Jung thought he rode the winding narrow roads of the Alps to memorialize his dad. He was wrong.
Posted inStory
Something About the Present
“And so I remember that it’s this moment I want, before it becomes the next, where anything could happen and anything could not.”
Posted inEssays & Criticism
All True At Once
You made a fool of the words “feminine” and “masculine” — you were neither, you were both.
