Jesse Sposato
Jesse Sposato
Writer & Editor
 

Essays

 
 
 

Features

 

Photo by Josh Groom

Illustration by Cassandra Fountaine

Narratively: A Guide to Turning Your Unreal Grief Into Something Beautiful

Narratively: How to Become a Successful Writer From Behind Bars

Narratively: The Book About Luke Perry You Didn’t Know You Needed

Narratively: Opening the Eyes of Every Customer, One Book at a Time

Narratively: Sweet Talk: How to Write (and Read) Romance Novels, With Author Nichole Perkins

Narratively: 'Give Yourself Permission to Tell Personal Stories': How One Book Designer Successfully Moonlights as a Writer

Narratively: The Producers of the Hit Podcast ‘Heavyweight’ on How to Find (and Tell) Intimate Human Stories

Narratively: How to Write a (Really Exhaustive) Investigative Story

Narratively: What It Took to Write the Personal Essay That’s Setting the Web on Fire

Bezzy: What an Increased Awareness of Depression Means for Those Who Have Lived With It for Years

Bezzy: How Jess Tran’s Psoriasis Diagnosis Was the Wake-Up Call She’d Been Needing

Healthline: How This Rest Expert Gets a Good Night’s Sleep, Sets Boundaries, and Stays Healthy

Healthline: It’s Time We Stop Bragging About Not Getting Enough Sleep

HuffPost: Marian Wright Edelman Is Empowering The Next Generation Of Changemakers

HuffPost: How One Woman Is Trying To Save Mississippi Through The Power Of Vegetables

HuffPost: A Photo Essay: This Nonprofit Makes Kids With Limb Differences Into Superheroes

HuffPost: Stephanie McGraw Of Nonprofit W.A.R.M. Shows Us We All Really Matter

HuffPost: One Person’s Trash Is Another Person’s Bright Future

Vice: How the Women Behind ‘Landline’ Flipped the Divorce Narrative on Its Head

KQED Pop: 5 Reasons Why You Need to Jump on the Tig Notaro Bandwagon

KQED Pop: How the ‘Felicity’ Rape Episode Was Ahead of Its Time

Misadventures: The Untold Story of Skateboard Pioneers (Pages 20-25)

Dame: Are Black Women Allowed to Claim Self-Defense?

Wilder Quarterly: Winter Wonders

The Rumpus: An Ode to Maxwell’s

Politico: An oral history of Zebulon, the music club that stepped ‘over the doo-doo of hipster Williamsburg’

Politico: At the Tribeca Film Festival: Directors of ‘In God We Trust’ on Eleanor Squillari, Madoff-scandal heroine

Politico: Richard Hell, and an old girlfriend bearing photos, at Bookmarc

Politico: An evening of Betsey Johnson doing what Betsey Johnson does, and who’s to complain?

Politico: Ken Burns and Sarah Burns, filmmakers behind ‘Central Park Five,’ discuss the film and their fight with the city over it

Politico: Lightning-rod writer Katie Roiphe talks about starting trouble and rethinking feminism

Politico: West Memphis Three’s Damien Echols talks about his new memoir, and moving on

 
 

Travel Writing

 
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Urban Campers

 

A column for New York magazine’s Bedford + Bowery

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