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Essays about people, places, things, and domestic disorder

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What are you feeling so insecure about?

a real question my husband asked me as I was flinging clothes on the floor trying to find the perfect thing to wear to my 40th high school reunion

In a nutshell

brevity being the soul of wit and all

Thank you for your attention to this matter

On the art of noticing

The horror

King Lear? Fine. A haunted car? Hard no.

Grendel & me

Nobody majors in English anymore, and that's too bad

Book 3 in progress

because writing is the best and also the worst

Mothers and others

An interview with author Nicole Graev Lipson

Birth is messy

So is memoir

Dress for the job you want

which is what exactly?

A superfluity of Substacks

and other collective nouns you need in your life