Anson Tong
Anson Tong (she/her) is a freelance writer based in Chicago. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Reader, The Rumpus, and The Millions. She writes the newsletter THIRD THING, which has no theme and more than three things. You can find her on Twitter @ANSONJTONG.
Lauren Rothery’s languid debut novel, Television, mostly alternates between fragments of the perspectives of Verity and his longtime best friend and sometimes lover, Helen.
Sable Yong, in Die Hot With a Vengeance: Essays on Vanity, examines a variety of ominous vanity-orbiting nouns that can be semi-jokingly, semi-seriously capitalized and trademarked—BeautyTM, WellnessTM, PerfumeTM, HairTM, among others.
In her new memoir, While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence, Meg Kissinger delves into her charmingly rambunctious family’s seldom acknowledged struggles with mental illness. Set against the backdrop of Chicago’s North Shore suburbia in the 1960s and ’70s, during a time before many people had a working knowledge of mental illness, Kissinger invites us into the family home.
