But the more that I tried to remind myself of the various ways in which I did, in fact, seem to have a body that was moving, with a heart that pumped blood, the more agitated I became. Being dead butted up against the so-called evidence of being alive, and so I grew to avoid that evidence because proof was not a comfort; instead, it pointed to my insanity.

The author discovers devastating secrets while going through her late father’s belongings.

Visiting Disney World during times of loss and sorrow.

Thoughts on race and adoption.

An informational interview during which the author is advised, “Find a rich husband, and then you can work at whatever you like on the side, and it doesn’t matter, because you already have money.”

The Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman star on being married to Woody Allen, Jewish words, and Girls.

Her grandfather, she found out decades after he died, was not her grandfather. Who did that make her?