Lacy M. Johnson’s Five Essayists
This past October the New York Times Sunday Book Review asked, “Is This a Golden Age for Women Essayists?”
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Writing Like a Mother(f*cker)
In the first few months after the baby is born, I experience a singing clarity: Milk! Diapers! Milk! Diapers! Lusty oxytocin! Sleep! Cheez-it binge! Sleep! I have cleared out a space–no, cleared out my whole brain–for this time, and I have no expectation of writing.
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Women We Read This Week
Kathryn Miles’ “How Could a Woman Just Vanish?” in The Boston Globe This is right up my alley: an ambitious hike, a mysterious…
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Sonya Huber’s Eight Midwestern Books
I have a bias toward Midwestern culture, partly because I’m from New Lenox, Illinois, a former farm town in the greater amorphous magical region…
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Women We Read This Week
Erica Wagner’s “Life and death at his fingertips: watching a brain surgeon at work” in The New Statesman This was published last month, but…
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Women We Read This Week
Helen Hayward’s “My children, my life,” in Aeon Magazine In this thought-provoking personal essay, Hayward challenges the assumption that a woman can’t dedicate herself…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Caty Enders’ “There Are No Pythons Here,” in Outside When…
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“She came out of nowhere.”
Cheryl Strayed wrote a Facebook post this past week in which she took on the popular claim that she “came out of nowhere” to…
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