Bread, Bricks, Poems

Finding the distinction between art and work with two private artists: Emily Dickinson and my grandfather.

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
11 min readMar 17

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Someone — not Emily Dickinson — kneading dough.
This is the “bread” part of the headline. Photo by Nadya Spetnitskaya on Unsplash

I have a comic book coming out next Wednesday. Typing that sentence feels like having your surgeon inform you, as you’re being wheeled into the operating room, that he’ll be trying it without the anesthesia this time.

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.