Eliza Barry Callahan Eliza Barry Callahan is a writer, artist, and musician from New York City. Her work has been published in frieze, BOMB, and The Believer. She is a 2023 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow. The Hearing Test is her first novel.

Moments of Elevation | Fiction

Eliza Barry Callahan

On August 29, 2019, I was meant to travel to Venice to watch a lifelong friend get married — a small reception for just ten people. The friend was marrying a Venetian. When I awoke that morning, I felt a deep drone in my right ear accompanied by a sound I can best compare to a large piece of sheet metal being rocked, a perpetually rolling thunder. I moved from...