In a Time of Mass Mourning, Grief Stories Are a Lifeline
In our constrained culture where public, raw grief is not socially acceptable, I fear that grief stories are being asked to do too much.
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Guernica The Year of Magical Thinking
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Why are we not doing this for our dead? Why are we skulking back into our isolated homes to furtively scroll when we should be screaming together?
s.e. smith is a National Magazine Award-winning Northern California-based writer who has appeared in The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Bitch Magazine, and numerous other fine publications.
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