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Monthly Archives: April 2020

Book Review: The Memory Sessions

Such are the questions plaguing Suzanne Farrell Smith in her haunting, deeply felt and gorgeously rendered new memoir The Memory Sessions. Smith’s father dies when she is just six years old, killed by a drunk driver on his way home from work. Outside of a few fleeting details—the doorbell chime, the police officer’s voice, a Knight Rider episode interrupted—her memory is wiped clean, not only of that pivotal night, but any childhood memories before or since, up to the age of about twelve or thirteen.

Submit: Letters in Limbo

As an exercise in reflection and storytelling, the project’s curators invite you to write a letter to your future self and submit it to the archive, to be publicized on the site (anonymously upon request) in the aftermath of the pandemic.