Horacio Castellanos Moya is a writer and journalist with a long and distinguished career. In addition to his twenty years of journalistic work he has..
The rainforest floor felt cool and damp against my cheek. I’d been stumbling for some time—sometimes catching myself, sometimes not. I tried to step over..
In Conversation: Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Dustin Parsons
Earlier this spring, TRUE asked my wife, the poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and I to interview each other about life, writing, and marriage. We..
Kelly Sundberg’s essays have appeared in Guernica, PANK, Quarterly West, The Rumpus, and here at Proximity. She was published in Best American Essays and awarded..
Spring in North Carolina is almost Edenic. Rising temperatures usher in porch-sitting, my favorite seasonal pleasure, before the summer humidity, before mosquitos. My neighbors and..
I first experienced Hanif Abdurraqib’s writing later than I should have: a 2016 essay at MTV News published in the wake of Prince’s death. Abdurraqib..
Whenever I teach podcasting, I begin with two audio excerpts. The first is from a popular investigative journalism podcast called S-Town, hosted by Brian Reed..
I recently witnessed an online discussion in which a writer was asking for advice on comparable titles for her unpublished book, a memoir of postpartum..
