“Stielstra’s essays are so masterfully done that after every one, I had to put the book down and take a breather.” —Book Riot
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Essays.
An Axe for the Frozen Sea, The Believer, Story of the Year Award from the Chicago Review of Books
Channel B, The Rumpus, included in the Best American Essays
Here is My Heart, Longreads
We Are All We Have, Longreads
We Make Homes, Gay Magazine
On Awareness, Tin House
Birth Control to Outlast a Presidency, Catapult
5:45, Khôra
What Would You Grab in a Fire?, New York Times
Stand Here to Save Lives, Guernica
This Election Will Kill Me, Buzzfeed
Under Your Feet They Go on Growing, Hypertext
Professional Development, Joyland
Fiction.
The writers Joe Meno and Dan Sinker made an interactive novel about a midwest town where everything disappears. It’s called Question Mark, Ohio. It has multiple characters spread across multiple platforms and I wrote Greta Twombley, the town library. Here is her book recommendation page.
Shot to the Lungs and No Breath Left, Coachella Review
Incredible, Joyland
The Flood, The Nervous Breakdown
Times Are Tough All Over, Monkeybicycle
I Am the Christmas Spirit, MAKE
Writing About Writing.
Hug Your Independent Bookseller, Poets & Writers
We Get to Make a Mess, Poets & Writers
Memory (With Soundtrack), Poets & Writers
Run On, Poets & Writers
On Reading Aloud, Poets & Writers
On Endings, Poets & Writers
An Essay About Essays, Hypertext
A Room of One’s Own in the Middle of Everything, The Rumpus
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