For purposes of full disclosure, my brother (aka your uncle) was with me on that drive and there were a lot of songs I’d have listened to before listening to him for three days straight. Read more

Was a time it looked like this Chris had staying power. Time waits for no Chris.

St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories. I like the introduction to her style, plus one of the short stories eventually connects and builds into Swamplandia!, which is also great.   Read more

Oh goodness long time South Floridian transplanted to Washington state! Growing up I never knew snow or seasons but I hold on to the occasional summer adventure growing up sailing in the Bahamas or meeting family in Connecticut my child’s brain turning any collection of old trees in the open family backyards I roamed… Read more

Who in the commentariat has read Karen Russell? What would you start with? Read more

Appreciate that. Read more

Sorry, Nora Roberts.  Read more

And hello Twitter—I may not Tweet but I hear things. I write my own comments, too. I don’t have a team. I have me. If it has my name on it—book, comment, whatever—I fracking wrote it. What’s so hard to understand about that? Read more

I will say again, because this is smearing my integrity. I write my own books. Every word. You may find you don’t like them. You may find one that doesn’t ring for you, but I wrote it. It’s insulting to have a reader decide otherwise because something didn’t work for them.  Read more

I write ALL my own books. You didn’t like one, that’s fine. But I wrote it. I very much object to being accused by someone who doesn’t know me of doing something I consider unethical. I write every book with my name on it. No ghost writer, no co-authors, no team. Me. Period. Nora Read more

I really enjoyed that book too and followed it with The American Way of Death: Revisited, by Jessica Mitford, which has completely changed how I feel about burial, etc.
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Never! There must be at least dozens of us girls who came of age with the charming stories of convenience marriage in the wild west! :D
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I had an abortion at 15 weeks to remove my already dead fetus. Although it was simple and quick the process, quite frankly, sucked. It hurt, I felt sick and sore for a couple of days afterwards. Read more

What is more, Netflix’s whole social media campaign of ‘Hey you horndogs, stop lusting after Ted Bundy! He is gross! (See him now on Netflix)‘ is such fucking transparently crass seeding of a shitty idea that I wish Netflix were a person so I could kick him in the balls. Read more

I don’t want to die, but of those options...

The choice is clear.

This piece by her is also well worth reading. Read more

I’m having an actual meltdown that blueberries are nowhere in this post. Read more

man, longform Bari Weiss-trolling is quite the niche market. just glad someone’s Twitter feed looks like mine... Read more

We’ve covered other women who will be congressional newbies in January. Here are just a few examples: Read more