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Us Alive, Right Here, Feeling Lucky

Favorite Edith Illustrations of the Year

Do I Deserve This Gift?

The Year in Fear

Too Heavy For Superman to Lift

A Room I Could Belong In

Interview with a 52-Year-Old Sober Person: Ana Marie Cox

This Is Our Year

Notes From an Adult Child of Alcoholics

Merry Christmas: Dementia and Grace

How to Be Afraid of the World

I Could Use a Hug But I'm Surrounded By Strangers

Blessed Are the Days of Unmet Expectations

Can You Still Love Your Family Even If You Hate Them More Than Life Itself?

In Thanks

Coping Mechanisms

What Is This Unearthly Thing Called Clarity?

Choose Your Lousy Emotion

Interview with a 64-Year-Old Sober Person: Nick Flynn

Years Go By Fast

What Has Been Lost, What Has Been Given

I Felt Like I Was Wanted, I Felt Like I Belonged

Masculinity Is a Disease We Give Little Boys

Self-Hatred Is My Superpower

When Things Fall Apart (Again)

Time Will Say Nothing But I Told You So

All These Forgotten Stories

How to Be Unsophisticated

On Micro-Griefs

The Art of Intimate Sorrow

What Is It Like to Do EMDR?

Here for the Suffering

How to Be the Least Cool Person at a Cool Party

Interview with a 54-Year-Old Sober Person: Kristi Coulter

How to Not Make Things Worse

State of the State of Mind

You and All That Cocaine

Joyful Sorrows, Sorrowful Joys

This Is Supposed to Be a Children's Story

I Can See the Edges of Everything

It'll Shine When It Shines

You Were Supposed to Read This Right Now

How to Tell Your Kid That You're a Drunk

Sometimes I Hate-Read Myself

That Mountain Goats Song

Interview with a 65-Year-Old Sober Person: Kathy Valentine

Why Cocaine?

How to Feel Visible

Why Does No One Care About Recovery Month?

Whatever You Think About the Most Is Your God

In Celebration of Impossible People

A Willingness to Love the Worst Parts of You

Trying to Figure Out Who I Am (Again)

There Is Happiness in Cleveland

Interview with a 60-Year-Old Sober Person: Chris Wells

A Return to the Cave

Some Kind of Ambition Monster

Favorite Illustrations, Illustrated

Bless the Sudden Flood that Teaches Us to Swim

A Recurring Mourning Period for Failed Transformations

The Gift of Humiliation and Other Prayers

Main Character Defects

That Cold Summer Feeling

The Strangeness of Being Strange

Workaholism 101

We Are Never More Than the Co-Authors of Our Own Story

Interview with a 66-Year-Old Sober Person: Anne Gregory

Ye Who Enter Here

Connection Junkies

Origin Stories

Sometimes the Problem Is You

Everything Is Normal and Fine

Why Can't I Stop Being a Dick?

Save It For Later

The Unsolved Mysteries of Anthony Bourdain's Big Life

No One Wanted to Take His Inventory

You're Still Doing Great Today

Interviews with Older Sober People

The Dad Jokes

Nothing Will Ever Be Boring Again

When Your Job Owns You

How to Be Defective

It's Not Easy

The Undeserving

The Weekend Lasted Twenty Years

How To Be Happy and Normal

How To Love a Monster

How To Love a Monster

Interview with a 57-Year-Old Sober Person: Claire Dederer

How To Be an Adult Child

Let It Begin With Me

I Call My Name Out Into the Dark

How to Start Smoking

Hardships of the Heart

Of Whom Am I Afraid?

How to Take Things Personally

That's Just the Way I Feel

Like the Sea Into a Pier

Is It Safe to Disclose Your Alcoholism to Your Employer?

The Alcoholic's Playlist Is Full of David Berman

Baby Reindeer

Origin Stories

Interview with a 70-Year-Old Sober Person: Jerry Stahl

Good News for People Who Like Great News

Longing for Something Ridiculous and Impossible

What It's Like to Feel Ugly (Part Two)

Staring Down Into a Spiritual Pit of Nothingness

Human Lab Rats

Nothing For Us to Do But Watch the Sky Fall Into the Sea

What Is the Past?

Into the Blood Pages

What It's Like to Feel Ugly (Part One)

Your Love Won't Change Anybody

What's the Point of Truth if it Destroys All Hope?

Interview with a 69-Year-Old Sober Person: Kim Wozencraft

The Birthday Party

And Here We Are

How to Feel Hideous

The Broken Boys Club

How to Play Dead

Trying to Break Your Heart

Joy Is an Act of Defiance

Heaven Is a Place Where Nothing Ever Happens

Hollywood Handbook

The Ballad of Tom Sandoval

How to Pray

Fear of Falling Off a Mountain and Other Temporary Madness

Interview with a 53-Year-Old Sober Person: Joan As Police Woman

How I Stay Alive

And Yet There Are No Demons: James Gandolfini Edition

Another Lost Soul at the Chateau Marmont

Hunter S. Thompson at the Chateau Marmont

How to Be a Human at the Chateau Marmont

How to Love the Worst Person in the World

How to Live With the Past

Everything Came Together the Minute Before It All Fell Apart

What's Wrong With Me?

Best Wishes, God

Sometimes the Best We Can Do Is Just Be With Someone

Meditation Is Supposed to Be Unbearable

An Additional Item of Incontrovertibly Good Routine

What It's Like to Have Money Shame: The Second Act

Waitin' for a Superman

Love You Forever, Death and Cocaine

Interview with a 60-Year-Old Sober Person: Claudia Lonow

The Place Where the One You Lost Resides

The National

What It's Like to Have Money Shame

Now We're Here: The Best Essay to Read as You Tumble Into 2024

Down in a Hole

This Will Make the Whole Rotten Thing Worth It