Samantha Hunt

Dec 11, 2023 | memoirland.substack.com | Ginny Hogan |Christian Wiman |Richard Kelly Kemick |Samantha Hunt

Welcome to Memoir Land—a newsletter edited by , now featuring three 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 “Call Me Mom Again” by . A new essay is coming soon.

May 10, 2023 | powells.com | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum |Samantha Hunt |Amber Sparks |Gwen E. Kirby

This year for Short Story Month, I wanted to pull together a selection of some of my favorite story collections that teeter on the precipice of the uncanny — books that play with the rules and boundaries of our world and use genre to explore the very-real horrors we face every day.