Gutting Ourselves On the Regular
Personal essays tear us up for a few pennies at a time. Is it worth it?
5 min readJan 25, 2021
We value memoirists and nonfiction essayists who can penetrate the grief, horror, heartache of life and show us something raw, something essential in humanity. We value them so much, in fact, that it’s become something of an industry on the internet.