Corina Zappia is the nonfiction editor at Pacifica Literary Review and a former staff writer for the Village Voice. Her essays have appeared in Gastronomica, The Morning News, The Awl, and Nerve.
A raw video of a diminutive woman howling “I’m the king of the world!” and nearly eating the camera was a welcome assault on late-night TV. It’s why I stayed up on a school night.