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Teaching/Being Taught
I made a joke on Instagram a couple of weeks ago (my husband on my Instagram jokes: you realize people don’t know they’re jokes, right?)—I put up a…
Sep 14
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August 2023
(A)symmetry
Almost exactly eleven years ago, in the second week of my second year of grad school, I had a baby. On the last day of my third year, I had another one…
Aug 28
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Secret Beach
About a mile from our house is a beach that everyone around here calls Secret Beach. It’s not so secret. It’s free and you have to walk down a steep set…
Aug 4
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July 2023
Ice Bath for the Brain
In order to cover two Big Fall Books for September, I’ve spent the past month reading roughly 2500 pages of two of our greatest working writers and my…
Jul 14
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Lynn Steger Strong
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Book as a House
A few years ago, my husband’s parents bought some land above a pond in central Maine. This was before, as a friend of mine said to me recently, the New…
Jul 4
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June 2023
Yesterday
For a few weeks now I had this idea that yesterday I would sit down and write to you all for the first time in a long time. I’d been with my kids…
Jun 27
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May 2023
story/truth
I find it very difficult to write essay in the place I am currently in my fiction. Which is to say, I wake up every morning determined to try very hard…
May 27
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March 2023
Chickie Wah Wah in New Orleans circa 2009
This is a story that is eventually about writing. It’s also about living in New Orleans fourteen years ago. In 2009, we got married and moved to New…
Mar 12
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Silent and Still
Years ago, I had lunch with a professional acquaintance who had just read yet another draft of what would eventually be my failed novel—three years of…
Mar 2
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February 2023
S'mores and Alex Katz
I went to the Guggenheim to see the Alex Katz show while I was in New York last week. Just advertisements, my mother in law (a painter and someone I…
Feb 7
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Lynn Steger Strong
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January 2023
Taking Pictures and James Wood
For a few years now I’ve been taking lots of pictures. In the Fall of 2020, my family and I went to Florida, to the town where both my husband and I…
Jan 26
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First Day of Class
I have a bunch of different tabs of drafts open on my computer right now for options to send to you all here. I think another reason I’ve been away from…
Jan 12
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