![]() ![]() ![]() Then I switch to whatever book I’m reading. Before I refill, I plug my phone into the charger on the far counter, where I can’t reach it from my chair. 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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