When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.
The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.
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When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.
The baby had come from a place none of us could remember. Our grandmother was headed there.
The author of Mother of God discusses the limitations of realism, Frank Bidart, and the anguished duality of shame.
Standing in the wreckage of these spaces unlocks a sensation people often crave, but can’t name.
It’s an imagined past, a pastoral imaginary, an alternate timeline in the multiverse.
It’s not that I divide my life into the periods before and after I went, exactly. It’s more that the trip accelerated a gradual change that has been happening all my life.
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The author of Say Nothing on the Troubles, the difference between narrative non-fiction and history, and reporting until you solve a murder.
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Now, what wouldn't I give to swim in my sister's dirt?
Anna Marie Jarvis spent years fighting the holiday's commercialization. But her attempts to keep control of her creation may have hastened its descent into Hallmark territory.