Trace Ramsey has written the zine Quitter (currently in issue #9) for a little over a decade. The first six issues were anthologized and published by Pioneers Press under the title Quitter: Good Luck Not Dying. A deeply honest narrative on struggling to break the binds that hold us down, Quitter is a devastating, thrilling read; a beautifully written examination of the frustrations and pitfalls of life in the current age.

Trace will read pieces from several issues of Quitter and also from his work-in-progress, Carrying Capacity, a book of essays about ancestral mythology, recovery from depression and substance abuse, and the disintegration of generational memory in the absence of physical evidence. Each of the chapters is both standalone and cumulative, built of memoir style vignettes.