TwitterIsland of Oblivion
“I felt like I was waking from a long dream that was both fantastic and scary, unsure of where I had been but convinced that I had crossed a border during the night.”
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Author: Megan Harlan
About Megan Harlan
Megan Harlan is an award-winning essayist, poet, and author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020), awarded the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and Mapmaking, winner of the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her writing has been cited as distinguished in Best American Essays 2018, 2019, and 2021, published in AGNI, The New York Times, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, River Teeth, American Poetry Review, and Colorado Review, and awarded the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize. She is the Editor of Farsickness Journal and writes The France House. For more, visit meganharlan.com.
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Icelandic Saga Love Story
“I surely was not a war story kind of person, I believed; nor was I on board with the classic Viking ethos of pillage now, apologize never. But then I opened to the first page of Njal’s Saga—and slid effortlessly into the social scene of southern Iceland a thousand years earlier.”
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Four Questions on Farsickness: Lulah Ellender
“Brook Farm is the place that most has my heart. When we had to leave I felt utterly bereft and the house haunted me throughout my life: I would dream that somehow I would win it back…”
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Notre-Dame de Paris: The Chimera, the Hive
Several years back, I made my way through Notre-Dame de Paris, awed by the unreal magnitude and sheer kaleidoscopic grandeur of the interior.
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Four Questions on Farsickness: Patrick Hicks
“I think being the child of an immigrant means that you’re hardwired with a sense of farsickness. There’s a longing for that other home, that other culture.”
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