The Journal of the Center for Applied Hopelessness

• Samantha Bowden reflects on the death of her nephew. In dying, she writes, he forced her to go on living, if only to carry the burden of his memory.
• Reeling from the poor sales of his debut record, Scott Keener dives into the meaning of failure-in art and in life.
• Lawyer Mills Block shares his struggles in living with social anxiety and his time spent representing Lionel Mering, a man wrongly convicted of the murder of his child.
• Mira Orlando introduces us to a unique science through which she has sought to escape the world of depression by exploring its terrible logic.

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"The collection creates a community of voices that feel individual yet interwoven, as if the pain connects them in unseen ways. In examining what it means to live with unresolved sorrow, each essay guides readers to confront, and even appreciate, the contradictions between resilience and vulnerability."

- Kirkus Reviews