Catherine Ricketts

Apr 22, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Julia Alvarez |Xi Chen |Catherine Ricketts |Clarissa Wei

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring four verticals:Memoir Monday, a weekly curation of the best personal essays from around the web brought to you by Narratively, The Rumpus,  Granta, Guernica, Oldster Magazine, Literary Hub, Orion Magazine, The Walrus, and Electric Literature. Below is this week’s curation. First Person Singular, featuring original personal essays. Recently I published “Happy Birthday to Me,” by . A new essay is coming soon.

Apr 15, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Catherine Ricketts

For weeks I throw up every day. I can’t smell the diaper bin or the dishwasher without heaving. I can’t exercise without churning my nausea. I go to sleep at 7:30 pm. In the mornings, I log in to meetings where my male colleagues don’t know that just off-screen, I’m beginning to show.