Tag Archives: cancer

The Gross Room

Posted on May 23, 2016 by John Biemer

What happens to body parts removed in surgery? John Biemer takes you to the “gross” room. Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged cancer, pathology | Leave a comment

O’Connor and Coltrane: Saints of American Art

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Sean Murphy

Flannery O’Connor wanted to jolt you with the violent shock of recognition, in the service of artistic if not spiritual consecration; Coltrane wanted to transcend the insanity altogether, altering consciousness through a profoundly moving colloquy. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature, Music | Tagged A Good Man is Hard To Find, A Love Supreme, A Prayer Journal, cancer, Dostoyevsky, Flannery O'Connor, God, Grace, John Coltrane, Lupus, Mystery and Manners, Rashied Ali, The Saint John Coltrane Church | 5 Comments

Blood on the Hallowed Ground

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Ian F. Blair

Ian F. Blair plays a game of basketball with his brother as he recounts the memory of his father’s death in an evocative, pulsing essay about cancer, family, and race. Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir | Tagged basketball, cancer, james baldwin, memoir, Richard Wright | 3 Comments

The Give and Take of Grief

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Anna Leahy

Anna Leahy on fate, guilt, grief, and the death of the writer Lucy Grealy. Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir | Tagged Autobiography of a Face, cancer, fate, Lucy GRealy, MFA, teaching jobs | 4 Comments

Away With Dusty, or The “Supreme Fiction”

Posted on July 25, 2014 by Timothy Braun

In part III of Timothy Braun’s road-trip adventure with his dog Dusty, he heads up the West Coast in search of family and lost friends, finding something deeper about the Supreme Fiction – and life. Continue reading →

Posted in Travel | Tagged Away With Dusty, cancer, dogs, family, Seattle, spiderman, Timothy Braun, Wallace Stevens | Leave a comment

What We Talk About When We (Don’t) Talk About Dying

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Sean Murphy

Aside from comfort and serenity, answers are the hardest things to come by when you’re dealing with terminal cancer, writes Sean Murphy. Continue reading →

Posted in Memoir | Tagged cancer, memoir, Please Talk about Me When I'm Gone | 4 Comments

Ride With Me

Posted on March 15, 2014 by Antonia Crane

In this excerpt from her soon-to-be-released memoir, SPENT, Antonia Crane recalls a stint at Pleasures. Continue reading →

Posted in Welcome Kink | Tagged BDSM, cancer, cash money, Mom, Money, prostitutes, prostitution, Sex, stripping | Leave a comment