Watch This By Jason Sepac A finalist of the 2021 Fourth Genre Multimedia Essay Prize Previous Next For the best reading experience, we recommend viewing this essay on a large screen or desktop. For a more mobile-friendly version, click here. To view the essay in full screen on a computer, click on a slide to expand it …
Autofiction: A Visual Essay By Frances Cannon A finalist of the 2021 Fourth Genre Multimedia Essay Prize Frances Cannon Frances Cannon is the Managing Director of Sundog Poetry, as well as a writer, artist, and instructor, currently teaching creative writing and literature courses at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and art and English courses at the …
A Bind By Nora Seilheimer From issue 22.2 of Fourth Genre If you travel with a fear of flying, mental health experts recommend that you hold fast to the facts. Remind yourself of statistics that show that the most dangerous part of your travel day is the car ride to or from the …
Suppose This Is Globe By Prachi Priyam From issue 22.1 of Fourth Genre Last year, Baba and Dadi—my grandparents—visited us in California. They had been there for a few weeks before I arrived. In my own personal tumult just before my first medical licensing exam, I spent what time I could with them. …
Jennifer By Cuifen Chen From issue 22.1 of Fourth Genre This is how I know my teachers have come to my name on the class register: a pause. A squint so fleeting across their faces, I only don’t miss it because I’ve been watching for it. Their lips forming half-whispered shapes as they …
The Devil’s Greatest Trick By Vince Granata From issue 21.1 of Fourth Genre and a notable essay in Best American Essays 2020. I don’t hear the word inmate at the Whiting Forensic Institute. I don’t hear prisoner. The men and women who fill the facility, a maximum-security division of the Connecticut Valley Hospital, are clients. …
