Author Eilene Zimmerman expresses her sorrow, guilt, confusion, and anger as she recounts her time with her ex-husband who eventually dies of a drug addiction.
Category Archives: Memoir & Poetry
Something for the Pain: One Doctor’s Account of Life and Death in the ER
Paul Austin is an ER doctor, and he pries open the night shift for the world to examine: the drunks, the weeping, the car accidents, the miscarriages, the utterly consuming exhaustion of taking care of people at 2:30am.
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
A raw, luminous work of poetry about queerness, being a foreigner, and searching for love.
Minor Feelings
A series of essays that explores Hong’s Asian American identity and critiques the culture that surrounds it.
Heavy: An American Memoir
A heart-wrenching memoir of growing up Black in Mississippi: a story about family, achievement, loss, writing, and gambling.