On his 18th birthday, Ryan Knighton was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP), a congenital, progressive disease marked by night-blindness, tunnel vision and, eventually, total blindness. In this penetrating, nervy memoir, which ricochets between meditation and black comedy, Knighton tells the...
POZZO: “I woke up one fine day as blind as Fortune.” —Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot In 1987, at the age of fourteen, I landed my first full-time summer job. It was so cherry. All my friends endured the usual suburban grunt labour and franchise humiliations, but not me. Five graveyard shifts a...
