Joe Gough is an illustrator whose work has been featured in publications such as TheAmerican Prospect, TheBaffler, NPR, The New Yorker, TheNew York Times, and Vox.
My dream of being a professional writer, which I’d been pursuing in earnest since I was a teenager, had objectively come true. This wasn’t misery, not really. This was happiness, hiding. Nevertheless, the nagging dissatisfaction I felt made...