“This I Am Allowed” is a haunting, beautiful essay. You should probably read it.
The new Brevity also features work by Tobias Wolf and others, and as always wonderful new craft essays including this one by Philip Graham on memory and mystery. A sampling: “… writing down memories makes them more real. Fifty years after that argument a single flash nonfiction exercise offered a greater understanding …
How strange—my mind had known the few words I’d need to remember, in order to one day comprehend their long term effect on me. How I wish I’d looked more closely, far sooner.”
Yes. (Read it.)
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