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Motels, Sisters, and Cardboard Boxes
Sometimes a gal just needs to get away. My sister and I had been talking about taking a trip together. No kids. No husbands. Just her and me for four whole glorious days. Our first ever sisters...
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Tom Sleigh: The TNB Self-Interview
Hey! You showed up! I didn’t think you would. Well, I almost didn’t when I heard you were doing the interview. I’m not that bad…we go way back, after all! I think of us as brothers, almost twins....
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Erica Garza: The TNB Self-Interview
Your book Getting Off is about your struggle with sex and porn addiction, but it’s also about your journey towards shame-free womanhood, so I’m just going to ask you what everyone’s wondering—did you...
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If This Is So, Why Am I?
How did I get from standing on the bimah for my son’s bar mitzvah three years ago to visiting my son at the adolescent wing of a psych ward? Raphael is here on a 72-hour hold, a “5150.” This is...
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Daniel Kalder: The TNB Self-Interview
So, I hear you’ve written another book. That’s right. It’s called The Infernal Library and it’s a study of dictator literature, that is to say books written by dictators, that is to say the worst books...
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Dislocation
I’m thinking about dislocation. About place. Wondering how to set myself in it, like Wallace Stevens’s jar in Tennessee, so I can change the place and the place can change me. An exchange. A...
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Natalie Singer: The TNB Self-Interview
Where were you on the evening of December 3, 1979? I was in a living room with a brown shaggy rug, tangled curls flying, rag doll clutched under my armpit, enormous headphones clamped around my...
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Pluto in the Twelfth House
Mark Frechette, movie actor and bank robber, believed in astrology. His interest in it started before he joined an astrology-obsessed commune, based in the Fort Hill district of Boston, that called...
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Excerpt of California Calling, by Natalie Singer
Formation There are four stages of interrogation; the first is called Formation. Before the interrogation comes the need for it to occur and the mandate to undertake it. At this stage, the framework is...
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When Your Best White Male Friend (Allegedly) Becomes a Radical Islamic...
In Memory of Scott Von Lanken Joshua Cummings, 2017 1. Do nothing after you find out from a mutual friend via Facebook messenger that your once-best friend, Joshua Cummings, just allegedly shot and...
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Excerpt of Not My White Savior, by Julayne Lee
Return to Sender *Since the Korean War, over 150,000 children have been sent to the USA via inter-country adoption. Due to a loophole in the Child Citizenship Act, there are an estimated 35,000...
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Julayne Lee: The TNB Self-Interview
Why did you write Not My White Savior? Somedays I’m not sure. I’m a very private person so being public about anything has been, well, interesting. Sometimes I want to close my eyes and pretend I don’t...
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Dreams
Sixteen says indignantly that she hasn’t taken pills in a month. Since she got caught, she means. Oxy was her favorite. I never tried Oxy, but I used to love heroin more than my own dreams. ***...
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Excerpt of Your Art Will Save Your Life, by Beth Pickens
You’re an Artist, Keep Making Art The realization that art could first save and then expand my life came when I was a teenager in a troubled home. Life with my mentally ill mom and alcoholic dad near...
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Beth Pickens: The TNB Self-Interview
What’s up with this book? I had no capacity to take new clients and I turned down everyone who reached. There was no one to even refer them to. I am the only person (that I am aware of) who does this...
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This Month’s Book Club Pick: Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change, by...
This month, the TNB Book Club is reading Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change, by Tao Lin. Available now from Vintage Originals, Trip is a remarkable and sometimes harrowing exploration of...
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Ticking of the Clock
My aunt died in a car accident when I was six. We buried her, a fetus in her belly. She was only 26. I try not to hear my own biological clock ticking. I came across a chart. It was labeled, “The...
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Dan Tomasulo: The TNB Self-Interview
American Snake Pit is a powerful title for your memoir-but the subtitle is even more intriguing: Hope, Grit, And Resilience In The Wake Of Willowbrook. Can you tell us where it came from? The title...
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Excerpt of American Snake Pit, by Don Tomasulo
Rock, Paper, Sister Private Practice: 30 Years Later June 8 Nick had presence. He was a tall, solid bodybuilder. Sharp, chiseled angles defined his jaw and shoulders. He wore a worn green T-shirt and...
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Gaze
It’s a perfect night for sleeping outside. I told my husband so, but he said I was crazy. Why would you want to do that? I dunno. Fresh air? A chance to be swallowed by the night sky? To watch the...
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