Never Quiet Again
“It’s not that we don’t remember what it was like before the sound. If you asked us, we could tell you.”
Jess Zimmerman is the author of Women and Other Monsters and an editor at Quirk Books. Her essays and opinion writing have appeared in the Guardian, the New Republic, Slate, Hazlitt, Catapult, and others.
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