Lee Durkee
Lee Durkee lives mostly on the roads of North Mississippi. He is the author of a novel, Rides of the Midway, and his stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Oxford American, and Tin House. His essay in this issue is part of a memoir about driving a taxi and being the worst Buddhist in the world.
— From March 2018
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories
Hospital Runs
On my very first hospital run I picked up this long-faced, country white guy who’d survived seven surgeries in the last five years. He looked to be late eighties, all but dead, but friendly in a half-deaf way.
March 2018
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