A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin
Lee Matalone reviews A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin today in Rumpus Books.
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Lee Matalone writes a monthly column for The Rumpus on death, loss, and mourning. Her writing has appeared in Joyland, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, VICE, and elsewhere. She lives in New Orleans.
R.I.P.: The Museum of Death
What strikes me is not the necrophilia or the fetal pigs or the spoon designed for scooping out human brain matter, but rather the mundane.
R.I.P.: Washington Phillips
As a culture, we tend to place more significance on the mystique of death than the actual event. We avoid considering the details: the transportation of the body down to the morgue, the excising of the organs, the decay of the skin within the tomb.
After the Tall Timber by Renata Adler
Lee Matalone reviews After the Tall Timber by Renata Adler today in Rumpus Books.