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Essay Daily: Take One Daily and Call Me Every Morning: Kati Standefer & Danielle Ofri on the origins of Bellevue Literary Review and the problems of the illness narrative
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Monday, August 3, 2015. Kati Standefer and Danielle Ofri on the origins of Bellevue Literary Review and the problems of the illness narrative. I wrote the stories sobbing into my sleeve at Lisa Jones’ kitchen table memoir class in Boulder, and I wrote them in coffeshops, with snow glimmering out the windows. Later, after moving to Arizona, I wrote them in my MFA, as strange parts of other essays. The essays were scrapped, or those paragraphs were scrapped. I tried again. And again. Hungers for and common...
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