Listen to these harrowing stories from the Pacific Northwest. I was so convinced that, during COVID, I would keep my own isolation diary, that I would finally adopt the simple practice of recording my day, jotting down stray thoughts, transcribing quotes, and taking down half-remembered dreams. My notebook sits bedside, maybe a quarter full of mostly illegible lists of things I did or felt in a day and entirely devoid of anything interesting or really thoughtful. When I do pick it up on some evening after dinner, I hunch over it in bed and scribble down some list of things. … Continue reading The Storyteller Borrows His Authority from Death: Premiering Isolation Diary from Mother Anxiety and S H R I E K I N G