Escapism for Moms: Three Chronicles of Fatherhood
I suspect that I’ve taken to these dad stories as a way of identifying with a narrative about the experience of a parent, while keeping myself a little apart from that identity.
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In the Company of Amy Clampitt
Two years ago I spent some time in Lenox, Massachusetts, at a house once owned by the poet Amy Clampitt. I slept in her bed, rifled through her books, gazed out the kitchen window at the tree by which her ashes are buried.
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Writing Outside Realism: Aimee Bender’s Magical Power
If reading Aimee Bender's stories was like creeping downstairs in the middle of the night to eat all the leftover cake with my hands -- that much better for the darkness, for the raw, guilty lust -- this new novel is summer afternoon, garden party fare.
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