Where we listen to essays we love and talk about what makes them so good
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In his incredibly chilling and honest essay, “The Dark Month”, Christopher Collins explores his faith and belief after witnessing a boy’s senseless death during the war in Afghanistan. Brian O’Neil reads this essay that was first published in Creative Nonfiction. The essay is a bit longer than most of the pieces we choose, but we […]
Based on the Beck song, “Que Onda Guero”, Kelly Shire’s musical essay (first published in Memoir Mixtapes) explores a young girl’s search for identity while working in a warehouse. Surrounded by men who have hired her because they thought she was white (not half-Mexican) and thought she would “class up the place”, she handles herself […]
First published in Hippocampus Magazine, Brooke Knisley’s essay helps put in perspective what failure means, what success means. After her fall from a redwood tree, she must learn to write and speak again. Brooke brings listeners into an intimate moment of starting over. In this episode we discuss how Brooke is able to keep a […]