Kristen Radtke is the author of the graphic memoir Imagine Wanting Only This (Pantheon, 2017). She is the managing editor of Sarabande Books and the film and video editor of TriQuarterly magazine.
You’re clutching your left side when you arrive home late Friday evening. You bring some of the outside cold with you into the living area of the house. Small traces of snow run along the creases and folds in your coat, and flakes thaw...
When Ingrid was twenty-five, she lived for four months in a big house on the edge of an unfinished—never to be finished—ski resort. This was in Montana, on Adelaide Peak, twenty years ago. Richie, her much older kind-of boyfriend, and...