My Imaginary Bunker
The recent activity in North Korea has urban survivalist websites humming. I wish I didn’t know. Some people watch rom-coms or eat fried Oreos as a guilty pleasure; I quietly…
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Megan Mayhew Bergman
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Megan Mayhew Bergman lives in Vermont with her veterinarian husband, two girls, and a largely decrepit menagerie of animals. Scribner published her collection, Birds of a Lesser Paradise, and will publish her forthcoming novel, Shepherd, Wolf.
When I Loved Reagan
When I see this video of eleven-year-old me, I burn inside. Maybe I should take it easy on myself, but I see a fumbling, painfully awkward girl supporting a politician whose influence still buttresses today’s anti-feminist conservatives
The Last Book I Loved: West with the Night
Her mother was a nurse, shot in World War II in Nepal. She—my mother-in-law—was an Ivy League-educated, motorcycle-driving, garden-planting veterinarian in Vermont… with a pilot’s license. When she passed away…