Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Lilly Dancyger
Lilly Dancyger discusses her debut memoir, NEGATIVE SPACE.
...moreLilly Dancyger discusses her debut memoir, NEGATIVE SPACE.
...moreAddiction steals your integrity. Your freedom, too.
...moreTranscendent Kingdom becomes an experiment in itself.
...moreFor years, decades even, my father tried to escape meth’s hold.
...moreI always thought I was too smart to be one of those girls.
...moreAll anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
...moreFear is real. Pain is real. Loss is real. Suffering is real.
...moreThe marijuana shop shimmers from the abyss, a glowing green jewelry box atop the hill.
...moreAlia Volz discusses her debut memoir, HOME BAKED.
...moreI’ve known since I was a child that the world is ending. I felt it in my bones.
...moreI want to respond from my heart—not my anger, my judgment, my desire.
...moreErin Khar discusses her debut memoir, STRUNG OUT.
...moreIt’s the atmosphere. The temperature. What lies between thee and me.
...moreWhen I imagine his days, the loneliness of it all makes my chest tighten.
...moreIt feels like a luxury to have just enough.
...moreIt felt like the sun beating down on closed eyelids.
...moreMy family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
...moreChris Dennis discusses his debut story collection, HERE IS WHAT YOU DO.
...moreAs it turned out, though, it was he who would surprise me that evening.
...moreJason Allen discusses his debut novel, THE EAST END.
...moreAs long as I could feel, I was going to get high.
...moreAfter, they said I was like a saint. Death changes people’s memory.
...more“The opposite of nostalgia is truth.”
...moreIntellectually, I know Gracie’s mom loves her and needs help. In practice, I just want my daughter safe.
...moreBroken people are drawn to other broken people. Comparing scars. Laying belly to belly. Two similar pieces of different puzzles.
...moreMila Jaroniec talks about her debut novel Plastic Vodka Bottle Sleepover,” writing autofiction, the surprising similarity between selling sex toys and selling books, and the impact of having a baby on editing.
...moreTrying to protect him from himself is like trying to protect atmosphere from weather.
...moreFor Mother, two worlds—earth we inhabit together, then the hot, heavenly body of euphoria and speed. Often, Mother exists in the tear between these worlds, belonging nowhere, to no one.
...moreJ.D. Vance talks about his memoir, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, the perils of upward mobility, and never forgetting where you come from.
...moreI lost a best friend and that means something, but you cannot deny that to go on the grief has to stop killing you, eventually.
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