I’m so excited to share a new story I wrote called Sprezzatura.

It takes place over a single day in November a few years back when I was agonizing about whether or not to take antidepressants.

On this particular morning, I went to see a psychiatrist who would have been able to prescribe them, then I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. And then this amazing painting by Bronzino turned everything around.

To read the story, click on this link or go to Issue 10 of Random Sample Review and scroll down to the nonfiction section at the bottom of the page.

Many thanks to the editors there for giving it such a beautiful home – and to you for reading the story!