My Grandfather’s Laugh Is like Thread
Is he there? Does he hear? Does he understand?
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Posts Tagged: old age
The Power of the Crone: Ursula K. Le Guin’s No Time to Spare
Sweet, nurturing, platitude-accepting granny Le Guin is not.
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The Rumpus Interview with J. Aaron Sanders
J. Aaron Sanders discusses his debut novel, Speakers of the Dead, his writing process, and the wisdom of sharing his early drafts with his students.
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For Slate, Laura Miller reviews the way old age is explored and rendered through literature, especially by those of old age themselves: The essays in Alive, Alive Oh! resolve in a stubbornly untidy fashion; Athill rejects the unspoken, oppressively conventional “wisdom” that dominates the personal essay today. “My two valuable lessons are: avoid romanticism and abhor […]
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: What Do You Bring Pauline?
Hoping to gain some insight into the nature of love and family, Elizabeth Tannen begins to visit the elderly woman who was once like a grandmother to her and who now has Alzheimer’s.
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