We Can Be Both Torn And Whole

On superpowers + writing constraints + fragments + the tyranny of confirmation bias and "this one weird trick" for getting around it + changing the past and ourselves simply by writing about it

Area Broken by Perpendiculars (ca.1934) painting in high resolution by Joseph Schillinger

GUEST POST BY MEGAN VERED (originally appeared in The Rumpus, March 2021

Jeannine Ouellette’s debut memoir, The Part That Burns (Split/Lip Press, January 2021) recounts a painful personal history in fragmented vignettes. In gorgeous prose, Ouellette writes about comi…