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Becky Robison is a writer and certified death doula living in Louisville, Kentucky. A graduate of UNLV's creative writing MFA program, she has been published in Salon, Slate, Business Insider, and elsewhere. After her parents died, she created My Parents Are Dead: What Now?—a website documenting her journey through the legal, financial, and bureaucratic aftermath in order to help others do the same. She continues to educate others about death and dying through her writing and public speaking. ...more

My dead parents are starting a podcast

That would be a good short story prompt. In reality, two white women in their thirties are starting a podcast.

Meet Emmy-nominated comedian Alison Zeidman. She wrote a standup show called “Ready to Die?” about post-death logistics. Meet me, author Becky Robison. I wrote a book called My Parents Are Dead: What Now? about post-death logistics. Between the two of us, we have zero parents.

That’s why

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A Death Doula's Guide to a Meaningful End by Jane K. Callahan
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I wish I'd had this book when my parents were dying. Jane's explanations of and recommendations for the death and dying process are clear, compassionate, friendly, and even funny. I experienced a great deal of relief reading the book, even though I w ...more
My Parents Are Dead by Becky Robison
"I never review a book but this one hit home. My dad died a month ago.. of course I wish I had read this sooner but I read a lot about death (weirdo) so I've done a lot right but there is always more deaths to come. I want to be as prepared as can be." Read more of this review »
My Parents Are Dead by Becky Robison
"I loved this book. I felt really unprepared in terms of going through the legal logistics of a parent's death, and I also can't afford a lawyer for unlimited consultation--so this book was a great primer in that regard. It is written conversationally" Read more of this review »
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What if Edgar Allan Poe were a Mexican woman writing in the mid-twentieth century? You might get Amparo Dávila and her stories! These aren’t straightforwardly horror stories; they’re more like slice of life stories where weirdness seeps in around the ...more
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I love it when vampire novels are more than just vampire novels, and Marina Yuszczuk came through for me with Thirst. Part of the book takes place in the early days of Buenos Aires, where a vampire has recently fled to escape the perils of her Europe ...more
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A few years back I read Ojeda’s novel Jawbone and loved it, so I was excited to pick up Nefando. Told in interviews with various characters, this novel recounts the story of a disturbing cult video game and the three odd siblings who inspired and enc ...more
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Now THIS is a novel. What a book! The story begins when a group of young children in a small Mexican village find the local witch dead—that’s the eye of the story’s hurricane. From there we roil from character to character, swirling and storming arou ...more
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