Another September: Creating Life and Art in a Terrifying World
I was already seven weeks. If the story were fiction, I would dismiss the ending as unrealistic. A deus ex machina. Contrived, overly convenient.
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Motherhood Is Life-Shattering: The Millions Interviews Kirsten Lunstrum
I write less than I might have if I hadn’t become a parent. That’s just the truth. But my fiction has deepened with the experience of raising other humans.
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The Magic of Being Out of Touch: Ignorance as the Last Stand of Romanticism
Returns to childhood, hedonism, intelligence: These have clearly lost their punch. Ignorance, ironically enough, is a harder Romantic object to dismiss.
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Kathleen Kent and Laird Hunt on Witches and Wickedness in American History and Literature
When I asked my grandmother if Martha Carrier had truly been a witch, she told me, “There are no such things as witches, Sweetheart, just ferocious women.”
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Changing Our Narratives through ‘Days of Our Lives’
I couldn’t help imagining a lost episode of Days of Our Lives where Nicole bugs Donald Trump, hears what he said about grabbing women, and plots a revenge.
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Tree Time and Mortality in the Eyes of Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Powers, and Ursula K. Le Guin
Human stories mix, meander, and sputter in the understory of a larger life always proliferating above our heads, rooted sprawling under our feet.
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A Melancholy Tightrope Act: The Beautiful Spectacle of Sabrina Orah Mark’s ‘Wild Milk’
One moment you’re arrested by Mark’s wit—her penchant for puns and malaprops—and the next you’re soaring into the visionary territory of mystic literature.
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