Affliction: On Finding Relief in Pain
Hurting heightened everything, both within and without it.
...moreHurting heightened everything, both within and without it.
...moreJennifer Pastiloff discusses her first book, ON BEING HUMAN.
...moreThe gym is a place where the body is primary.
...moreToday is not the day I can eat like a normal person and not tomorrow either. But maybe the day after that or the next one after.
...more“This must be where we meander,” I said with relief. “How far do you think we’ve come?”
...moreBut was I an alcoholic? The idea had never crossed my mind. The more I reflected on it, the less I understood.
...moreMy doctor told me to begin with adding five minutes to my morning walk. During those five minutes, I recalled the life I’d once had—that intense life that ambition gave me—and the man I’d once been.
...moreIn Palmetto Landing, the men’s bodies existed in inverse proportion to those of their wives. Ahead of the publication of her much anticipated collection Difficult Women, out in January 2017, you can read Roxane Gay’s new short story “Group Fitness” over at Oxford American.
...moreSometimes, thick clouds roll in like doubts, and the god-like giants are obscured to the point where I almost swear they never existed. Other days, there’s no questioning their presence.
...moreI always say the last time was the last time, and I always mean it, but I’m scared I’ll relapse again.
...moreNick Ripatrazone on why writers need to run: While on sabbatical in London in 1972, a homesick Oates began running “compulsively; not as a respite for the intensity of writing but as a function of writing.” At the same time, she began keeping a journal that ultimately exceeded 4,000 single-spaced, typewritten pages. “Running seems to […]
...moreDiligent exercise can be an ordeal; reading David Sedaris wax poetic on diligent exercise isn’t. Over at the New Yorker, the essayist elaborates on his Fitbit, Australian housecleaning, and the problem with keeping a routine: I look back on the days I averaged only thirty thousand steps, and think, Honestly, how lazy can you get? […]
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