Jacob Scheier | The Sun Magazine

Jacob Scheier

Jacob Scheier studies creative writing at the Ohio State University. He is the author of two poetry collections, Letter from Brooklyn and More to Keep Us Warm, and a nonfiction e-book, My Never-Ending Acid Trip.

— From January 2018
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Best Lack All Conviction

In The Paper’s Midtown Manhattan office, the long fluorescent light fixtures contained the silhouetted carcasses of cockroaches that had died making the journey from one end to the other. The carpet was a Rorschach test of spilled cola, coffee, and cigarette ashes. This was where I worked for the better part of a year.

January 2018
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