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We don’t talk, for instance, about wine at dinner parties, or wine at house warmings, or boxed wine on the front stoop, or beers at the game, or mommy juice in sippy cups, about open bars or happy hours, champagne toasts or cakes drenched in rum, about all the gatherings—the celebrations—where we drink water, […]
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Then the road less traveled by diverged in a wood and took him in the night.
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Finding joy in the now, even as death and difficulty mark the days, is possible, a choice, and a practice.
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“Writing in this way allows me to put order in this disordered world.”
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James Brown and Patrick O’Neil discuss WRITING YOUR WAY TO RECOVERY.
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The frame expands. The structure collapses. The pieces are still speaking.
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It hadn’t felt like teasing. It felt the way it always did these days—that I had disappointed her.
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Poet Kimiko Hahn discusses her new collection, FOREIGN BODIES.
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I always thought I was too smart to be one of those girls.
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Sarah Kasbeer discusses her debut essay collection, A WOMAN, A PLAN, AN OUTLINE OF A MAN.
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There is no finality to this grief. Only a series of losses, compounded.
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Amy Long discusses her debut book, CODEPENDENCE.
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Erica C. Barnett discusses her debut memoir, QUITTER.
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The thing we most had in common was that none of us wanted to be there.
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All I want is to feed myself like a person who wants to be fed.
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I needed my beauty to be invisible, either accidental or not at all.
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Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn discusses her debut essay collection, A FISH GROWING LUNGS.
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Erin Khar discusses her debut memoir, STRUNG OUT.
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I wanted to stop withholding from them, but withholding was like a drug.
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When I imagine his days, the loneliness of it all makes my chest tighten.
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My sobriety is still a mystery to me. Forty years this December.
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My family rarely throws the word addiction around. If we do, it is whispered.
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In my secret mind I saw him; I spoke to him every day.
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Augusten Burroughs discusses his new memoir, TOIL & TROUBLE.
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Emily Arnason Casey discusses her debut essay collection, MADE HOLY.
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Drinking is the opposite of staying.
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Find and replace. Food for alcohol. Daughter for dad.
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Amber van de Bunt discusses her debut memoir, OVERCOME.
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Barrie Jean Borrich discusses her work, including her most recent collection APOCALYPSE, DARLING.
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