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Amy Butcher

Amy Butcher is an essayist and author of the forthcoming memoir Visiting Hours (Blue Rider Press/Penguin, April 2015), of which this essay is an excerpt. She earned her MFA from the University of Iowa and has recent work in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times “Modern Love” column, Gulf Coast, Guernica, and Brevity, among others. More at .

Features, RecentMay 13, 2013

Lessons of Grief

By Amy Butcher

The day that it happened, the United States Postal Service unveiled The Simpson’s collectors’ set—a five-stamp commemorative booklet featuring…

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