In an Essay, Let Us Borrow Your Eyeballs—or Anyone Else’s, Really, Even a Bird’s
Meaning is an abstract concept. It needs a container. Concrete details are those vessels, the building blocks, the foundation of a good essay.
Translating for My Friends Is My Love Language
Whenever I travel, I make a point to speak the local language as much as possible.
How to Write Personal Essays Through Who You Are
This exercise is meant to let you use a part of your identity as a perspective, rather than just a subject that you’re putting under pressure and scrutiny.
Wherever I Am, I Write From a Place of Grief
Walang katapusan ang dalamhati. What else can I do but live through it? Write through it?
How to Date While You’re Grieving
The point of dating is to get to know another person. It’s a process made more confusing when, in my grief, I’m getting reacquainted with myself.
‘And Just Like That’ Isn’t Perfect, But It Gets Grief Right
In the ‘Sex and the City’ reboot, Carrie Bradshaw’s arc is one of the most truthful depictions of mourning I’ve ever seen on TV.
Publishers Brunch Believes Book Memes Can Bring Us Together
In an interview with Catapult magazine, Publishers Brunch shares how Instagram memes foster a sense of community in the publishing industry.
My Mom, Princess Diana, and Me
At what point does someone we’ve lost become only a story we tell, more myth than memory?
Where Matt Ortile Writes
I try to be agnostic about where I write; I never have an excuse to not.
Baking My Mother’s Recipes Keeps Her Near
Baking was solely Mom’s domain, I believed, and cooking for her was mine.