June 23, 2023
Sick and Writing: Two Poets Converse
Fleda Brown and Jennifer Sperry Steinorth talk about the impact of illness, and their own illnesses, on a writing life. Jennifer Sperry Steinorth: You and I have said that we’d […]
June 14, 2023
The Night You Swallow the Moon
The Kenyon Review · The Night You Swallow The Moon In your dreams, you are a creature from one of your mother’s stories, not your father’s, and having no fire […]
June 14, 2023
The Bottom of Things
Your sister asked me to write on your memorial wall, but I couldn’t; this was what I wanted to write. The last time we saw each other was at her […]
June 14, 2023
Séances with Sisi: Romy Schneider, Kristen Stewart, and Other Women Who Gaze into Darkness
The Kenyon Review · Seances With Sisi: Romy Schneider, Kristen Stewart, and Other Women Who Gaze into Darkness In the Viennese neighborhood of Lainz, on the edge of the Vienna […]
June 13, 2023
This Is a Book About Trees
June 13, 2023
How to Tell a True Love Story
The Kenyon Review · How to Tell a True Love Story In Lubbock, Texas, I walk my boxer mix around the neighborhood every morning at 7:30. Always, we follow the […]
June 13, 2023
Eviscerations
The Kenyon Review · Eviscerations It was late, just after the IV antibiotics and bedtime meds, when Barbara shook me from a half sleep. “Jennifer,” she whispered. “You speak Spanish, […]
June 13, 2023
Our Lady of the Stairs
When I see my daughter for the first time, at my twenty-week scan, she is lying on her back with her ankles crossed. She is a lady of leisure. I […]
June 13, 2023
Burnings
The story made the front page of the New York Times that morning — a doctor had blown up his brownstone so it would not go to his wife in the divorce […]
June 13, 2023
Robber’s Lake
Genius has this idea of fabricating his own diving bell so he can walk on the bottom of Robber’s Lake. He bear-hugs a five-gallon water jug from his dad’s storm […]
June 13, 2023
All’s Well
The cat arrives just before the virus. Winnie, the social worker, shows up with a box that she struggles to unload from the passenger seat of her car. Jan, ninety-one […]