The Church was pleased to have esteemed poet Philip Schultz in conversation with editor Jill Bialosky. Featuring an excerpt reading and discussion of Schultz’s newly published memoir Comforts of the Abyss, the two conversed about Schultz’s writing school, method, and how it translates to the page. In this candid and generous book, Schultz reflects on his early life in an immigrant neighborhood of upstate New York, his first writing experiments inspired by Ernest Hemingway and John Keats, his struggles with dyslexia, and the failures he witnessed in his father’s life and his own.