Adam Wilson is the author of two books, Flatscreen: A Novel, and What's Important Is Feeling: Stories. A recipient of The Paris Review's Terry Southern Prize for Humor, he was recently named to Brooklyn Magazine's list of 50 Funniest People In Brooklyn.
“Sauerkraut Soup” from Stuart Dybek’s 1986 debut collection Childhood and Other Neighborhoods begins with a narrator waxing philosophical on the cathartic nature of bodily purge. “Puking felt like crying,” he…