The Past Ten - by Donald Quist & Kali White Vanbaale & Bailey Gaylin Moore (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Based on the Past-Ten.com website created and launched by executive editor Donald Quist in 2017, The Past Ten features a wide range of responses from parenthood, to family issues, professional development, gender and sexual identity, addiction, recovery, illness, natural disasters, war, and more, and are from bestselling writers like Brandon Taylor and Heather Gudenkauf, up-and-coming writers, performers, critics, teachers, and everyday people, all answering the same question, where were you on this day ten years ago?

Review Quotes

"A reflective mosaic, made up of some of the most exciting voices in American literature today."

-Jaquira Díaz

"The 71 essays in The Past Ten may be 'fun-sized' (1,000 words max) but boy, do they pack a wallop. Heartbreaking and heartmending, even the most harrowing of them full of hope."

-David Jauss

"The many memoirists assembled here create compelling codas, artificial endings, closing parentheses in order to look back and look closely, sift and sort, assess and assay with gifted elan and elegant exegesis, and see for the very first time these very mean and memorable meanings. "

-Michael Martone

"What a powerful and brimming treasure trove of stories this is: stories of transformation, of metamorphosis, of loss, of love, and of becoming. A persuasive and ingenious ode to time: its waves and meanders, its sharp curves and gentle arms."

-Robin Marie MacArthur