Jill Talbot is the author of a memoir, Loaded: Women and Addiction, the co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non) Fictions Come Together, and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction. She is the 2013-2015 Elma Stuckey Writer-in-Residence in Creative Nonfiction at Columbia College Chicago. She looks longingly at every pay phone she passes, and the cell phone she’s used for seven years, a Motorola with faded numbers that can only be used for calls and texts—which take very long to type out—incites techno-shaming and disbelief from friends, students, and strangers, but she’s going to hold on to it for as long as she can, the way she does so many other parts of her life that should be defunct by now.
