Cheston Knapp

Cheston Knapp is the managing editor of Tin House. He lives with his family in Portland, Oregon. Up Up, Down Down is his first book.

Content by Cheston Knapp

Graffiti drawing of a hand holding a telephone receiver. There is a dialog box emerging from the hand.

Nonfiction,

Neighborhood Watch by Cheston Knapp

BY Cheston Knapp

What bubbles there were that floated and shimmered wet and oily and then blipped out of existence under the funeral parlor’s fluorescent lights were really quite something to behold. I’m even tempted to go for the cliché here and say you couldn’t have written it better, so well did the scene appear to encapsulate the end.