Grieving the mysterious death of her father, Susanna Space seeks refuge in the study of meteors.
death
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The Haväng Dolmen
A trip to a Swedish stone-age burial site gives an archaeologist too close a look at death.
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Blackstars
Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
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Blackstars
Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Blackstars
A personal essay in which Michael Gonzales reflects on the deaths of a dear friend, and a bookworm he idolized: David Bowie.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Jack, Jacqueline — Dad
A personal essay in which Yvonne Conza wrestles with the complexities of estrangement from her dying — complicated — dad.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
Jack, Jacqueline — Dad
Yvonne Conza wrestles with the complexities of estrangement from her dying — complicated — dad.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Jack, Jacqueline — Dad
Yvonne Conza wrestles with the complexities of estrangement from her dying — complicated — dad.
Posted inEditor's Pick
How to Grieve Your Friend and Mentor
In this moving personal essay, Amy Jo Burns writes about how the death of her writing mentor, Louise DeSalvo, has affected her, and how reading Alexander Chee’s How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, and Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend helped her process her grief.
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‘I Don’t Know What Else to Do. So I Run.’
“You see that you can never go back. And with this knowledge a peculiar grief descends.”