“What interests me, as a writer, is the way that people continue to be themselves . . . even when the worst is happening.” A conversation with Caleb Crain, whose short story “Easter” appears in this week’s issue.
,” your story in this week’s magazine, a young man named Jacob goes with his mom and sister to visit his ailing grandparents in Fort Worth, Texas. His grandfather is a semi-retired doctor who got in trouble, because he liked to try the medications he could prescribe. The story of this visit is intercut with Jacob’s summoning up the memory of visiting a college classmate, Stu, and getting high.
One inspiration for “Easter” was that I told a therapist a family anecdote that I’d always told as if it were a joke, and he started to cry, to my surprise. Around the same time, a friend told me that, with his therapist, he was trying to unravel a funny story that he’d woven out of an episode of assault.
Jacob’s classmate Stu, a kicker on the football team, is described as beautiful, and the reader is instantly aware of the erotic tension that exists for Jacob. But how aware of it is Jacob?
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