Long ago I read a great piece of advice in Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird. “Write like people are dead,” she told me. She meant this metaphorically of course, in the sense that a writer can’t be afraid of offending someone, either directly or indirectly—that they have to stay true to themselves on the page … Continue reading God Bless the Grievers: Zoe Fishman on Reclaiming Widowhood Narratives