As part of our ongoing celebration of the magazine’s fiftieth year in print, this month’s Dog-Eared Page features an essay previously published in The Sun.
— Ed.
Years before I met Genie Zeiger through my job as The Sun’s manuscript editor, I was an admirer of her writing. In her 1998 Sun essay “Secrets,” she wrote with tenderness and frustration about a larger-than-life friend, someone so seemingly open she once danced naked in front of an audience, but someone who could not make room for problems that were not hers. I loved Genie’s voice on the page: candid, funny, moving, and generous. She plumbed the emotional lines without hyperbole or tricks.
