Tag: leslie lindsay
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I’m opening this interview with a little bit of trepidation, very like once I was a toddler, lifting the duvet of a childhood favourite, The Monster at The Finish of this Guide. In that story, Grover, a Sesame Road character, frantically tries to forestall the reader from turning the web page, solely to seek out out…
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I’m not precisely positive what it’s about true crime that’s so alluring, why everybody turns into an armchair detective when a giant case breaks into nationwide information, however they do. I learn novelist Benjamin Hale’s forthcoming ebook, Cave Mountain: A Disappearance and a Reckoning within the Ozarks (Harper; March, 2026), earlier than it was publicly…
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Interviewed by Leslie Lindsay After I was an adolescent, everybody had an opinion about what I ought to do with my life. ‘Pediatrician. Mom. Architect. Journalist,’ they sang. Extra particularly, “A broadcast journalist!” I went to nursing college. After I was simply out of nursing college, residing within the Midwest, I took a job at a behavioral…
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Interviewed by Leslie Lindsay I’ve no heirlooms of my grandmother’s. Nothing even, of my mom’s. The one factor I’ve of my great-grandmother’s is a black and white photograph of a ruinous nation retailer that I took myself when visiting Kentucky and had blown up. It’s an odd dimension so I haven’t discovered a correct body.…
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Reviewed by Leslie Lindsay I’ve a portrait of my Appalachian great-grandmother on my desk. Her lengthy, graying hair is pulled again right into a bun. She wears glasses and a plaid blazer, additionally, a smirk. For years, I’ve puzzled what was behind that grin, tucked in these chiseled cheekbones, the identical ones that fashioned mine.…
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Interviewed by Leslie Lindsay Like Shigeko Ito, I’m no stranger to childhood trauma. Like Shigeko Ito, I guess you aren’t, both. It appears inescapable, this idea of a ‘excellent childhood.’ Does anybody have such a factor? In her debut memoir, The Pond Past the Forest: Reflecions on Childhood Trauma and Motherhood (She Writes Press; October…
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Reviewed by Leslie Lindsay TW: suicide Final night time, I dreamed I spoke to a ghost. She was dwelling in a field in my laundry room. I used to be pulling sheets from the washer to the dryer, and there, within the dreamworld of my life, a fully-formed lady emerged. “Why are you dwelling in…
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REVIEW: The Lab: Experiments in Writing Throughout Style by Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante
Reviewed by Leslie Lindsay I’m obsessed. I can’t cease interested by my great-grandmother, a lady I by no means knew. She was previous and demented once I was born. Perhaps I’ve a reminiscence of being at her deathbed? Perhaps I insinuated myself into {a photograph}? Perhaps I solely assume I knew her from tales? That’s…
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Reviewed by Leslie Lindsay Twenty years in the past, in a Prairie-style group hospital in the course of a Minnesota cornfield, I gave start to my first daughter. Like Erica Stern, I used to be on the sting of a brand new frontier. Like Erica Stern, I had idealized motherhood via tender diaper commercials and…
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Interviewed by Leslie Lindsay In two days, I will probably be on the airport. I assure you, nobody will probably be ‘dressed up’ like cohorts of Marty Ross-Dolen’s grandparents. They have been govt leaders of the household enterprise, Highlights for Youngsters. Again then, in1960, it might have been pastel fits and scarves, tweed jackets, though…