In The Absolutely True Diary, Mary Runs Away writes enthusiastically to Junior about the telephone in the bathroom of her honeymoon hotel room: “It’s on Flathead Lake and we had a suite, a hotel room with its […]
My mother-in-law is staying with me this weekend. She is a clinical social worker at an in-patient crisis unit for teens and children in Washington County, Maine, the poorest of Maine’s numerous poor, rural […]
Allow me to get a little autobiographical here for a moment. I had a bit of a Baader-Meinhof experience reading the Abate that provoked some interesting questions for me, and they might be helpful to some of the […]
The book I was talking about related to this is “Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America,” by Rebecca Jo Plant. It’s a short read and really, really good.
In Freud in Oz, Kenneth Kidd’s “main goal has been to describe rather than analyze” the “historical encounter(s) of children’s literature and psychoanalysis,” as he states in his concluding paragraph. He explores […]
In Jacqueline Rose’s own words about The Case of Peter Pan, she states: “Instead of asking what children want, or need, from literature, this book has asked what it is that adults, through literature, want or d […]
I mentioned in class last night an interview where Sheila Heti talks about the differences in the Canadian and U.S. editions of How Should a Person Be? It was published in The Millions back in 2012, which is […]
Hi Patricia! I love (love, LOVE!) photography, so I’m very excited that someone in the class is doing a project where we’ll get to explore this subject.
I had just two connected threads I’ve recently come […]
Just a note: I was reminded of Knausgaard in general because he has an apparently enormous essay forthcoming in this weekend’s edition of the New York Times magazine. While it apparently clocks in at around 10k […]
As someone who labored through the first volume and a half of “My Struggle” by Karl Ove Knausgaard over the course of about six weeks this summer, I’m simultaneously thankful that this wasn’t included on our […]
Hey Destry! All three of these topics sound amazing (…and many of the books you mentioned here have rocketed right to the top of my reading list…). I was thinking that with regard to the first topic, Emily […]
With regard to the third question, I believe the project was conceived around protecting the anonymity of its contributors. Participants create physical postcards and send them to the headquarters, where they are […]
While it was only a tangent during last night’s class discussion on Virginia Woolf and the memoir club’s straddling of the public and private spheres, on the way home I really got to thinking […]
Hey Destry! Thanks! There is so much good stuff out there on the topic, and so many directions to take it. This fits nicely with this awesome piece I read this weekend by Emily Erwin Culpper about a film she made […]
Hey John Paul! I noticed the back and forth here when I was checking in on my post, and I immediately thought of some reading I’ve been doing for another class on American suffragists in the early 20th century. A […]
It’s true that I work in medical publishing, but in the Venn diagram of my personal interests and my professional life, there is only one small overlap: how we talk about our bodies, […]