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.
...moreAddiction steals your integrity. Your freedom, too.
...moreIn deep grief, we rotate inside of a funhouse.
...moreI lived there, suspended in the moment before I chose to move.
...moreShe introduced me to the ugly of religion and to the beauty of the world.
...moreStill, Smith’s sadness does not serve to disintegrate her zeal for living.
...moreMeredith Clark discusses her debut lyric memoir, LYREBIRD.
...moreFor Chang, figurative language proves unsatisfactory when compared to the depth of her grief.
...moreAnything we write now is a primary source.
...moreGrief sneaks up on you, and so does this book.
...moreI searched in its beady eyes and tried to find a motherly warmth.
...morePaul Lisicky discusses his new memoir, LATER: MY LIFE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD.
...moreSuzanne Farrell Smith discusses her debut memoir, THE MEMORY SESSIONS.
...moreMy defensiveness has never been what’s saved me.
...moreVictoria Chang discusses her new poetry collection, OBIT.
...more“I am the salt; the stories are the food.”
...moreIt’s a strange thing, seeing a reliable machine fail. Seeing a hero crash to earth.
...moreErin Pringle discusses her debut novel, HEZADA! I MISS YOU.
...moreIt took all of the world’s beauty for me step forward, once more.
...more“For me, when I write nonfiction, my mind moves from the outside to the inside.”
...moreAs the book continues, [Laux] traces a growing understanding of loss.
...more…women’s writing has often been deemed too dark, too sultry, too frigid, too hysterical.
...moreI need to hear myself say it out loud to make it real.
...moreShe was living in little shack balanced among the branches of a tree.
...moreElizabeth Geoghegan discusses her debut story collection, EIGHTBALL.
...moreReveal yourself. Reveal yourself. You cannot be dead. Reveal yourself.
...moreLet’s not pretend first means there’s a good place to start.
...moreWaiting to turn forty-six is like standing in the unrelenting sunshine.
...moreChia-Chia Lin discusses her debut novel, THE UNPASSING.
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