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By Sarah Curtis In the spring of last year, I mailed my father a copy of my manuscript before my publisher sent it to press. Since it was about him, I thought he deserved the final...
The object is never the subject. The object is the lens. By Marvin Garbeh Davis, Sr. I did not set out to write a memoir. I set out to write about my stomach. Specifically, the com...
Friday Fragments Sara Brady Fri, 10/02/2026 - 03:00 AM History is cunning, Michigan’s grading experiment and first job experiences. Byline(s)...
It is an odd thing, looking back on your life, trying to recognize in the mirror of memory the people you used to be, finding them strangers: the person who kissed your first kiss,...
“Where Is Here?” an excerpt from I’m Still Here by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, translated by Alison Entrekin & Daniel Hahn We don’t remember the first images and accomplishments of o...
Like any life, mine has had its pain, yet from the outset it seems to have been graced by unbelievable people and events. An anthology of miracles.
In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage”...
Nine Notes on the End of the Story Continue reading on Medium »
For many people like the author, the world feels “like a bag of puzzle pieces with no picture on the box.” In this intimate memoir, Manning details his struggles to understand why....
Tell me about the faces that blur, names that disappear. Recall the half-smile of a crush with a moon-shaped scar near her temple. Childhood street names are preserved as passwords...
If a book only catalogs your trauma, readers aren’t satisfied. Memoirists Amy Goldmacher and Molly McCloy are working similar terrain—difficult fathers, inherited damage, reconcili...
The author explains in his introduction that he wanted to create pieces that “hung there in midair, suspended” without categorizing them as prose poetry, flash fiction, or micro-fi...
The earliest essay in this book was published in 1992, when I was 40. Back then, my wife and I had only one child, Samantha, three years old. I am finishing this book at 71. My son...
By Huck Smith The first draft of the essay about firing Marcus was written in “you.” You take the promotion. You tell yourself it’s a good decision. You don’t notice the room closi...
In Brian Dillon’s bewitching new book, “Ambivalence: An Education,” the author’s younger self is depicted as an inscrutable, fumbling figure named B.
The author discusses her story “Lost Child.”
An excerpt from Bastards Rudy left me his old leather motorcycle jacket, which I took to have the zippers repaired and the lining replaced. On retrieval, the man at the counter sli...
Whether we like it or not, we are all results of the people we once loved. Or still do.Continue reading on Medium »
Some stories don’t begin with inspiration; they begin with an itch. A tug. A little internal nudge that says, Hey, remember who you used to be? Today Jean follows that tug back to...
John Updike wrote around 250 short stories, the vast majority of which are from the perspective of the “Updike” character. As has been well documented, they’re based on himself, hi...
This article is part of a series of pieces celebrating Glasstire’s 25th anniversary. To see other stories from this series, go here. To see pieces from the month of September, arou...
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