Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Lilly Dancyger
Lilly Dancyger discusses her debut memoir, NEGATIVE SPACE.
...moreLilly Dancyger discusses her debut memoir, NEGATIVE SPACE.
...more“Thinking about blurring those lines got me closer to the truth of the clichés.”
...moreAddiction steals your integrity. Your freedom, too.
...moreFor years, decades even, my father tried to escape meth’s hold.
...moreShe introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.
...moreRachel Genn discusses her new novel, WHAT YOU COULD HAVE WON.
...moreI always thought I was too smart to be one of those girls.
...moreThe hit below the belt worked. A jab like that was the quickest way to protect one’s denial.
...moreAll anyone really wants is to be seen and heard, and yet we avoid seeing and hearing others every day.
...moreAmy Long discusses her debut book, CODEPENDENCE.
...moreAnything we write now is a primary source.
...moreJudith Santopietro discusses TIAWANAKU. POEMAS DE LA MADRE COQA/POEMS FROM THE MOTHER COQA.
...moreAlysia Li Ying Sawchyn discusses her debut essay collection, A FISH GROWING LUNGS.
...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’m saying people can be imperfect and still be remembered as beautiful.
...moreI want to respond from my heart—not my anger, my judgment, my desire.
...moreErin Khar discusses her debut memoir, STRUNG OUT.
...moreI wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
...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.
...more“Ty is, you know, tied in a knot. On a very old shoe.”
...moreI think this is what love is, critical and enduring.
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