Tag: creative nonfiction

A small sampling of standout essays published this year.

Struggling with the world’s, and his own, homophobia, one queer young man searches for intimacy in the world of internet porn.

“We were interested in dead girls, but so interested in them that we were trying to do the opposite of what had been done before.” 

The electric bass chose her, but it took 44 years to heed the call.

A year after the Camp Fire, Tessa Love contemplates home, California’s undoing, and what it means to belong.

After a lifetime of alienation, one woman discovered how her spacial disorientation could be a gift that connected her to strangers and made her less alone.

Hearses, limousines, Detroit’s newest model — cars marked many milestones in Nancy Nichols’ life of heartache and family deception.

Privately made records enjoy a cult following among collectors, but few are as legendary as Donnie and Joe Emerson’s 1979 LP Dreamin’ Wild.

The seven stops on the bus lead one resident to an understanding about the way he views his neighbors.

Angela Palm learns to find joy in a world filled with suffering.

How terrifying. I’m glad you’re recovering, I write back. I’m at a dinner party in Rome and I think I’m having some kind of breakdown. I’m scared. I’m not sure who I am anymore and I don’t have a concussion to blame it on. Or Percodan. Can you email Percodan? Sounds like we’re in the […]