Rebecca Giggs

Jul 1, 2024 | memoirland.substack.com | Hannah Sward |Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory |Rebecca Giggs |Alexandra Dos Santos

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.

Feb 19, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Rebecca Giggs

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Feb 18, 2024 | newyorker.com | Rebecca Giggs

On a fall day in Gainesville, Georgia, Justin Kobylka, the forty-two-year-old owner of Kinova Reptiles, was preparing to cut open two clutches of snake eggs. He was hoping to hit upon some valuable, beautiful reptiles. Kobylka is a breeder of designer ball pythons—one-of-a-kind, captive-bred snakes whose skin features colors and patterns not usually found in nature. “I think of myself as an explorer,” he told me.

Nov 30, 2023 | nybooks.com | Rebecca Giggs

One early myth about the dinosaurs was that they would return.

Sep 7, 2023 | singulardiscoveries.substack.com | Rebecca Giggs |Paul Brown

This brief story from the 5 March 1831 Preston Chronicle, in Lancashire, England, is a succinct gem that requires minimal embellishment: SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF HIDDEN TREASURE — About a month ago, Edward Shaw, carter to Mr. Bainbridge, of Leyland, on coming to the toll bar on Middleforth Green in Penwortham, observed a boy with a gun attempting to point it at a starling upon the chimney top, but from the circumstance of the toll house having an overshot roof, he could not bring the gun to bear...