The Light Endures: 13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins
Grief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
...moreGrief begs to be analogized, not to be tamed exactly, but somehow made approachable.
...moreMy dad, a psychiatrist, wants to write a sex book.
...moreViolence can be turned around, turned into pleasure, or an act of freedom, or an act of defiance.
...moreThere is nothing I want more than a happy ending.
...moreI knew my mother would be surprised. I didn’t know she’d be horrified.
...moreGreg Mania discusses his debut memoir, BORN TO BE PUBLIC.
...moreThese are not poems of self-pity. Far from it.
...moreCarter Sickels discusses his new novel, THE PRETTIEST STAR.
...moreI’d crossed a line and owned a new secret life. There was no going back.
...moreCameron Esposito discusses her new memoir, SAVE YOURSELF.
...moreFenton Johnson discusses his new book, AT THE CENTER OF ALL BEAUTY.
...moreMy body tightened as the knee-jerk worry of being seen and outed flooded back.
...moreHealing is slow. Fast. Slow again.
...moreIt is an unimaginable gift until you’ve done it, shaving off a self.
...morePaul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
...more“I’ve never had a book happen to me the way WE HAD NO RULES did.”
...moreI’ve known since I was a child that the world is ending. I felt it in my bones.
...moreIf the art of drag has taught me one thing, it’s that I am not unique.
...moreSamantha Irby discusses her new essay collection, WOW, NO THANK YOU.
...more“I had thought of the title as a placeholder, but it ended up hanging around.”
...moreWe met in a dorm hallway, half past midnight.
...morePaul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
...moreJenn Shapland discusses her debut book, MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
...moreJuliana Delgado Lopera discusses their new novel, FIEBRE TROPICAL.
...more“This reality is so much dustier, smellier, and bitterer than it seems through a screen.”
...moreJenn Shapland discusses MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS.
...moreBrandon Taylor discusses his debut novel, REAL LIFE.
...moreI needed love big enough to make my own hunger seem small.
...moreGarth Greenwell discusses his new book, CLEANNESS.
...moreIf nobody tells you what to call a feeling, your emotions have a gap.
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