Remnick! Call me!
September 18, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
Did you have a chance to read Jerome Groopman’s long and insightful article on colic in last week’s New Yorker?
I liked it.
What I really liked was the structure of the piece. First he introduced us a new mom with colicky twins, then he discussed the difficulties of trying to diagnose and...
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Tag. You’re It
September 13, 2007
Filed in: The Home Front, The Middle Ages
UPDATE: As I’m sure you’ve already guessed, this weekend was transfigurative. Friday I was a girl who hated yard sales because she was an insecure snob. Tonight I am a woman who hates yard sales because they suck. Never again, dear readers. Never. Again.
Related: anbody interested in four...
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LOL Stands for “Labor of Love,” Right?
September 10, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
The Fall 07 Brain,Child is out and about in the world, meaning in print and now online. Yay.
I wrote an essay for the very first issue, back in I think it was 1902, when my ovaries were still wearing miniskirts and tank tops. Since then, I’ve been very, very slowly reeled in, till this last...
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On the Road, In Your Face
September 05, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
Speaking of 50ths, On the Road was published 50 years ago today. There have been about 2 bazillion words already published on the subject of the anniversary, so I’ll try to keep my remarks brief and personal.
Like many, many other readers of On the Road, maybe all of them?, I fell in love with...
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American Landscape #55
August 31, 2007
Filed in: The Way We Live Now
I don’t have a book yet, because I don’t have a book contract, because I haven’t written the freaking proposal, but never mind any of those petty details: I have a cover for The 50th State!
Take a look at this. [pauses]
Isn’t it beautiful? Haunting and sad and wistful? I love it. It’s by
