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June 2016

June 10, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Quantum Theory” by Victoria Kelly

A friend said to me once, if time were flat, if everything were always happening...

June 01, 2016

The Arab of the Future

I snuck into a chair while a friend was describing how growing up under a...

May 2016

May 17, 2016

Grief and the Weight of Glory

The wind whips through the quilts and sheets on our clothesline, cracking now and then...

April 2016

April 08, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Smokers, Sunday Morning, 1975” by Bobby C. Rogers

This poem seems at first to be a straight-forward narrative: a childhood recollection of the...

March 2016

March 14, 2016

The Living Among the Dead

Thanksgiving Day after I turned four: high fever at dinner, a drive through a blizzard,...

February 2016

February 17, 2016

Drive-By Memory

My first memory takes place in Lakewood, CA, a small suburb south of Los Angeles....

January 2016

January 27, 2016

Where to Hang Your Grief

My daughters Lydia and Becca, ages 12 and 10, are thoroughly delighted by the contemporary...

December 2015

December 16, 2015

For the Love of Hank Stuever, Part 1

It’s been a rotten day. The Fed Ex package didn’t arrive; a typo slipped through...

December 11, 2015

Poetry Friday: “Annunciation” by Katharine Coles

Each Friday at Good Letters we feature a poem from the pages of Image, selected and...

November 2015

November 24, 2015

The Tyrannical Self-Gaze

I'm doing most of my walking after dark these days as night comes a little...

November 09, 2015

The Curse of a Good Memory

First of all, it makes everyone hate you at parties. We all know that it’s...

November 04, 2015

Listening to a Stranger’s Story

I am boarding a plane to Detroit, and so is she, her thick coat falling...

October 2015

October 29, 2015

The Affair and the End of It

The second season of Showtime’s The Affair premiered at the beginning of October. In the show, Noah,...

August 2015

August 27, 2015

Checked Baggage

It’s evening and I’m about to meet my older sister in baggage claim. Trained by...

March 2015

March 03, 2015

The Arts and Faith Top 25 Films on Memory

By Ryan Holt For me, there is no more acute reminder of the passing of...

September 2014

September 10, 2014

Songs Dead Men Sing

Guest Post by Cathy Warner In the backseat of our minivan I swig an individual...

October 2013

October 28, 2013

My Brother John: A Eulogy for the Living

For some months now, I have been ruminating on the writer John Podhoretz’s eulogy in...

August 2013

August 13, 2013

Sorting Through the Past

I’ve been cleaning out an attic—not my own—along with drawers, closets, shelves, storehouses, and barns...

April 2013

April 05, 2013

The Moveable Feast of Memory

There are moments when you take stock of everyone and everything around you because you...