Some nights, when medication and meditation have failed to put me to sleep, I think of the relatives who abandoned my family to become white people. Several generations ago, in midsized Ohio cities during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, some of my father’s ancestors walked away from their families, their homes, and their neighborhoods and…
Caille Millner has a new nonfiction essay in the November 2021 issue (issue 551) of The Sun Magazine. “Life, Without Imitation” is available online for a limited time, and in the monthly print edition.
Caille Millner has a new short story, “Whatcha See is Whatcha Get,” in the Summer 2020 issue of The Southern Review (250th issue). Despite the destination, this is a very San Francisco story. Details about the issue can be found here. Copies can be purchased here.
Caille Millner has a new short story, “The Haunting,” in The Halloween Review. Please check out the issue, which also features Lydia Davis, Sheila Heti, Lynne Tillman, and many more. Edited by Michael LaPointe, with illustrations by Alex Warrender and Ryan Romero.
by Caille Millner (Originally published in The Halloween Review) I foresaw a death shortly after my 12th birthday. At the time, I had no idea what I was seeing. I woke up screaming in the early hours. Gasping for air, windmilling bedsheets with my fists. My mother came running into my room. She gripped my…
Caille conducted an interview with Michael Ondaatje, the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient, Anil’s Ghost, Warlight, and many other books, in the Winter 2018 issue of Zyzzyva. The magazine is available for purchase here.
Caille Millner has a new short story, “Information Gladly Given,” in the 50th anniversary issue of the Cimarron Review. Issues can be purchased here.
Caille Millner’s essay, “Four Murders,” originally published in Michigan Quarterly Review, received a notable mention in The Best American Essays 2017, edited by Leslie Jamison and Robert Atwan. The essay is in the Winter 2016 edition, available here. For a short excerpt, see this post in Caille’s Writing section.
(Originally published in Michigan Quarterly Review’s Winter 2016 issue, republished here at Longreads.) I need to tell you about someone whose name I can’t speak. The lack of a name is inconvenient, but it’s not the most important thing about him; he gave it up so long ago. Everything important that I can tell you…
By Caille Millner, The Paris Review Daily, Aug. 25, 2016 Thomas Mann’s home in Pacific Palisades, California, is up for sale. The news came as a surprise: the house, designed by the modernist architect J. R. Davidson, was believed to have a reliable owner with Chester Lappen, the lawyer who bought it from Mann…
