Tough Odds, Lady Bird
I first noticed the robin one day in early June, as she swiped dead stalks from one of the two potted lavender plants on our deck.
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Women We Read This Week
Rebecca Solnit’s “The Mother of All Questions” in Harper’s Solnit’s essay opens, as so many do, with questions—but this one in a literal, external…
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No Comments
“The comments are a shit show.” This from a friend on Facebook, a warning perhaps or an expression of vicarious disappointment. “I read the first one and threw my phone across the room.”
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Katia Bachko’s Six Personal Essayists
Here’s a crackpot theory: as the world grew hot, flat, and crowded, monocultural, and globalized, the urge to hear intimate stories became particularly vital….
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Women We Read This Week
Rachel Monroe’s “Fire Behavior” in Oxford American Read enough literary journalism and it becomes easy to trace the intentions and arguments of a piece…
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