SMITH readers who first got a taste of Jason Thompson’s work via his then-memoir in progress, Stella: A Memoir, will be pleased to learn that the work will now be published as a full-length book on Lulu, the online, publisher on demand. Stella is an original, intense, and at times darkly funny memoir about Thompson’s [...]

SMITH is pleased to present an excerpt from Jason Thompson’s memoir in progress, Stella, about the writer’s experience growing up as the child of an angry, abusive, mentally ill mother. “A decade after leaving home I became suicidal,” says Thompson. “This excerpt describes my time in a psychiatric hospital after I tried to kill myself, [...]