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ASK Family Services has teamed up with two other Kalamazoo-area mental health agencies. Together they’re offering a phone service called a warmline, as

Anyone who has experienced profound loss understands the nonlinear nature of grief. The echoes in absence are circular, spiraled, looping. To read Lilly Dancyger’s memoir is to travel along the arc of a specific loss through her eyes: as a daughter to Joe Schactman, who died too young at 43. Yet, Negative Space embraces readers in a universal sorrow, beautifully wrought on the

Every memoir requires searching for the truth of the story. Lilly Dancyger, author of the memoir Negative Space, shows how this hunt can serve as the structure of the narrative.

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This article CONTAINS SPOILERS for the Netflix Series, Midnight Mass and the Stephen King novel, 'Salems LotWhen you're an artist,…

A new approach towards scaling up qubits from hundred to millions is potentially the key to improving present-day quantum computers.

We seem to be emerging from this difficult year, still uncertain, and I’m grieving the...

Data published this week by federal health officials indicate the highest rise in heart disease and diabetes mortality rates in at least 20 years.

Santa Fe Writers Project Lilly Dancygers Negative Space is a double biography that tells Dancygers story while simultaneously discovering her dead fathers life. At once an exploration of grief and a literary séance in which the author speaks to her father through art and interviews with his friends and exes, this book is also a coming-of-age narrative where grief and anger become a path that leads to destruction, addiction and, ultimately, redemption. Dancyger remembers her childhood as ...

Negative Space: An Interview With Lilly Dancyger Catapult and Barrelhouse Books editor Lilly Dancyger talks about her debut memoir Negative Space. Author: Lilly Dancyger—editor of the anthology Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger and assistant editor of Barrelhouse Books—never intended to write a memoir. She originally set out to write about her father Joe Schactman, a member of the iconic 1980s East Village art scene who died unexpectedly when she was young.  The book she eventually ...