Rooms and Wombs and Writing: A Reflection on Stories Highlighting Life’s Impermanence by Patrick Connolly

I’ve come back to Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants so many times. He uses third person objective point of view to create a chill in a scene that could otherwise be exuberant and exotic. A train station, central Spain, a hot afternoon, people talking about their lives together, an unspoken baby on the way – and that is a problem.

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Warmth, Body and Longing by Sonya Huber

While writing my essay collection on chronic pain, Pain Woman Takes Your Keys and Other Essays from a Nervous System, I began to explore a relationship with my body that was not constrained to the pain of rheumatoid arthritis. I began to lean into examples provided by such beautiful works as Anatole Broyard’s book Intoxicated By My Illness.

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