LITERARY STORIES ABOUT ONLINE EXPERIENCES: AN INTERVIEW WITH LEIGH STEIN
I first learned about Leigh Stein after she published an essay in the New York Times about the importance of young memoirists. She writes:…
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Inversion
My father carved for my mother. He turned blocks of wood into mini-carousel horses. These horses were the most delicate things I’d ever seen a man make…
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The Ism and the Alcohol
A year and a half ago, I published my first essay on addiction. You’d think having gotten sober at age seventeen would have been fodder…
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The Tweakers or the Ghosts
You know you’re close when the fog thins out, when the dull pink behind cuts through, when the hills along the highway become vacant and brown.
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The Trip Inside
Warm summer night, window open, leaves cutting the streetlight into pieces that flickered across the bedroom floor. We lay on top of the sheets…
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The Bright Burning of Dory Tourette
Author’s Note What follows is a story about my friendship with Dory Ben-Shalom, AKA Dory Tourette, a person beloved by many. The story is…
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On the Rails in Phnom Penh
We called him Eat Pray Paul. Because there were two Pauls and they were more or less indistinguishable — both red-faced old dudes who’d been kicking around Cambodia…
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