Jesse Sposato

1 day ago | narratively.com | Jesse Sposato

You’d be hard-pressed to find a story more inspiring than Najib’s. By the time he turned just 11, he had been through truly unimaginable hardships — but he persevered and kept going, not just surviving, but living life on his own terms and thriving. At a time when LGBTQ+ rights are under attack and some of our most basic freedoms are being threatened, it feels especially important to read a story about this kind of defiance — and success.

1 week ago | narratively.com | Jesse Sposato

We are so pleased to get to share with you this moving story, “One of My Babies,” from 2024 Narratively Memoir Prize finalist Matt W. Miller, an acclaimed poet who has recently taken up essay writing. Here’s what Matt said about working onthis piece: “I’ve been thinking about and trying to write about, in poetry and prose, this experience for over 20 years now. I never quite arrived at what I was trying to say.

1 week ago | narratively.com | Jesse Sposato

The day a new story publishes is always my favorite. It’s so exciting to finally get to share with the rest of the world the thing that’s been taking up so much space in our brains during the previous days, weeks and months. The thing, the story, that we know is so amazing that everyone needs to read it ASAP. The only down side? What if readers were busy or skipped checking their email the day it went out altogether and missed it?

2 weeks ago | narratively.com | Jesse Sposato

While Memorial Day weekend usually marks the unofficial beginning of summer, from where I’m sitting right now, the forecast is calling for rain, it’s a bit gray and there’s a chill in the air. By the time Monday rolls around, though, things will be looking up. In the meantime, there might not be a better way to channel warm, summer vibes this long weekend than by reading some of our favorite summertime stories, which you can find below.

Mar 6, 2025 | narratively.com | Jesse Sposato

I wrote about this a bit when we first published Elizabeth Laura Nelson’s piece, “What’s the Opposite of Taking Someone’s Virginity?” a few weeks ago, but this essay first came about after I read Elizabeth’s recent Modern Love essay and adored it. I reached out to her hoping she might have more to say about Jeff, the best-friend-turned-lover she wrote about who (spoiler alert!) died shortly after they finally got together, and she did! I was in luck.