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I think people want more unstressed time with their kids. I think so much of the time we are spending with our kids we are exhausted, and we have all this other stuff on our minds that’s mentally draining, physically draining. But the answer is not always more childcare.
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Ottessa Moshfegh discusses her new novel, MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION.
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The best books I have read about motherhood have not reassured me that these feelings will resolve.
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Cyclical patterns of journalism notwithstanding, Gladstone sees this moment as uniquely concerning.
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Melissa Febos discusses her new essay collection, GIRLHOOD.
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Jennifer Berney discusses her debut memoir, THE OTHER MOTHERS.
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Te-Ping Chen discusses her debut story collection, LAND OF BIG NUMBERS.
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Ahmed Naji discusses his new memoir, ROTTEN EVIDENCE.
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Sarah Smarsh discusses her new book, SHE COME BY IT NATURAL.
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It’s hard to see what isn’t there.
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Erica C. Barnett discusses her debut memoir, QUITTER.
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Alia Volz discusses her debut memoir, HOME BAKED.
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Kristen Millares Young discusses her debut novel, SUBDUCTION.
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The missionaries seemed concerned. I figured it was too late for that.
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Lyz Lenz discusses her debut book, GOD LAND.
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“The way it turned out is a total surprise to me.”
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Laura Lippman discusses her newest novel, LADY IN THE LAKE.
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“It’s cruel to not say, I see you. I know you exist.”
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Megan K. Stack discusses her new memoir, WOMEN’S WORK.
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Marin Sardy discusses her debut memoir, THE EDGE OF EVERY DAY: SKETCHES OF SCHIZOPHRENIA.
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Dave Cullen discusses his new book, PARKLAND: BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT.
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Music critic Amanda Petrusich discusses DO NOT SELL AT ANY PRICE.
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”There’s a danger to the word [’mine’] that I find really rich and exciting.”
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Jenny Valentish discusses her memoir, WOMEN OF SUBSTANCES.
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“I understood in that moment that my life had changed forever. And it has.”
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Elizabeth Rush discusses RISING: DISPATCHES FROM THE NEW AMERICAN SHORE.
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Vanessa Hua discusses her forthcoming novel, A RIVER OF STARS.
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“I want to make a case for the serious, literary legitimacy of the female experience of self-construction.”
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Kelly O’Connor McNees discusses her new novel, Undiscovered Country, the timeliness of its story, and the genre of historical fiction.
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Michelle Dean discusses Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion, literary legends, and the absence of Black writers from the narrative.
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