I scroll through Twitter, looking for op-eds, while I drink my first cup. I scan the headlines on my cell while coffee fills the pot. I wake up before 6, sneak past my daughter’s room, and make my way downstairs in the dark, hugging the side of the steps that doesn’t creak.
Kelly Corrigan contemplates the author’s journey and her belief in the power of literature to help us grapple with challenges-even those we can’t survive. Four months after Riggs’s death comes The Bright Hour, her profound and poignant memoir. But following a cancer diagnosis at 37, she began writing and reading with a fury. Throughout her life, poet Nina Riggs sought refuge in the written word.
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