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Belief in Action: An Interview With Marissa Landrigan
Marissa Landrigan, author of The Vegetarian’s Guide to Eating Meat, had been a vegetarian for seven years when she came to the slow realization…
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Half Light
The first and only haircut I have given was to my mother, and because we were both nervous I took my time setting up a single-seat beauty parlor in her room at the hospital in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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On Joy and Desire: An Interview with Sarah Ladipo Manyika
hen Sarah Ladipo Manyika reads lwaloud from her new novel—the exquisitely titled Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun—she becomes the characters…
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Women We Read This Week
1. Rebecca Solnit’s “The Loneliness of Donald Trump” on Lit Hub It gives me so much hope to see Rebecca Solnit rise to the…
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Women We Read This Week
This might come as a shock, but this Sunday is Mother’s Day. Yes. Perhaps you’ve seen things about it in the media. With that in…
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The Book And The Baby
Exactly one week before my first book came out, my daughter weaned and potty trained. She did this in a day. After months, maybe even a year, of my hand-wringing about a possible eternity of diapers, about when and how to perfectly ease her off the boob, she woke up one morning and became a kid.
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Women We Read This Week
1. Patricia Lockwood’s “Escape From the Convent” in New York Magazine Raves about Lockwood’s work have been all over my Twitter feed for months…
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Failing at Important Things: A Parallel History
The sunset glowed in ribbons behind the Rockies to the west, backlighting the tractor as it chugged slowly along, and it was hard not to feel hopeful about the whole enterprise. We believed we could create something better for ourselves, for our children, by trying to become smaller, live simpler, love the land and each other more fiercely.
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Women We Read This Week
1. Sarah Smarsh’s “How political nuance could save America” in The Guardian If you have not been reading Sarah Smarsh, start ASAP. Allow me…
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Women We Read This Week
1. Rachel Monroe’s “#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement” for The New Yorker Years ago, when my husband and I were traveling around the West…
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Family Trees
My grandfather, a young boy in a red coat wandering the deep and snowy Lithuanian woods, found a litter of wolf cubs in a hollowed oak that had been rent by lightning. He placed the abandoned pups in the hood of his coat and carried them home, where he raised them, or he let them go, or he began a new narrative of our family inextricably linked ever after with white and quiet woods, with dogs, with hollowness sometimes filled by something unexpected. Soon after, he moved to Warsaw, where he stayed and where I, eventually, came from.
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