Joe Gough is an illustrator whose work has been featured in publications such as the American Prospect, the Baffler, NPR, the New Yorker, the New York Times, and Vox.
My dream of being a professional writer, which I’d been pursuing in earnest since I was a teenager, had objectively come true. This wasn’t misery, not really. This was happiness, hiding. Nevertheless, the nagging dissatisfaction I felt made...