Dead Parents Society

Stephen Fried (@stephen_fried), a journalist, author of many books, and adjunct faculty member at Columbia and Penn joins Jamie-Lee to read and discuss his essay, "Dead Fathers Society," from his 2007 collection Husbandry. Stephen and Jamie-Lee discuss the nature of these respective societies and how not everyone who has lost a parent wants to tell the story of it. They also discuss teaching writing, Stephen's course Writing About Mental Health and Addiction, and how they approach student writers who are facing difficult material.