I get it. I read A Million Little Pieces. I watched Oprah transform James Frey from literary celebrity to a sack of whimpering contradictions on national television. So, I want to get this straight up front… There’s a wide gradient line out there dividing memoir and fiction. It starts with the pure brightness of truth [...]
In 2001, David Plotz wrote an online series for Slate Magazine exploring the “Genius Babies and How They Grew” and in 2005 a book titled The Genius Factory, in which he tells the story of the Repository for Germinal Choice, also known as the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank. In late 1987, my daughter Sarah was [...]
I already knew. I’d suspected it for a long time. Susan and I had been trying to get pregnant for well over a year. Nothing from her OB-GYN indicated any trouble on her part. So it wasn’t a huge surprise when the report came back from the urologist… along with a request to provide another [...]
Early August 2009. It is just a few minutes past midnight… a few minutes since the young woman in my hotel room turned twenty-one years old. Now she wants to buy her first legal drink before we call it a night. It’s been way more than a few minutes since I turned twenty-one years old. [...]