Paris Memoir
Where were you when you learned that President Kennedy was shot?
What does a memoirist really remember? Mortifying to confess, I remember where I was when I heard the news of the event in relation to
November 21, 2013
Paris Memoir
COUNTDOWN TO PUBLICATION: Breathless Is Out! Read Chapter One Today. (Please?)
This my fourth and final Countdown to Publication. Wish me luck. It’s even in two bookstores in Brooklyn. For the first time in my life
November 14, 2013
Paris Memoir
COUNTDOWN: “Is it you?”
This is the third installment of my “countdown to publication” for the members of shewrites.com A few months ago, I showed the book jacket of
November 7, 2013
Paris Memoir
COUNTDOWN: PLATFORMING
This is the second installment of the “countdown” posts I’m doing for shewrites.com. In my last post I chronicled the long and winding road I
October 31, 2013
Paris Memoir
COUNTDOWN: The Journey
I’m posting four installments on the amazing website shewrites.com about the imminent publication of my new memoir. The countdown is a regular rubric where members
October 24, 2013
Noted
This Sex Which Is Not One
Sound familiar? Cast your mind back to Luce Irigaray’s essay (also book title). Sometimes I think everything important about women was written in the 1970s,
October 17, 2013
Friendship
What I Don’t Want to Remember
There are lots of jokes about forgotten anniversaries, usually to reprove husbands who have forgotten the anniversary of their marriage. I have forgotten my own
October 10, 2013
Noted
I’ll Have What She’s…
How many readers still know how to finish the sentence? Or that “I’ll Have What She’s Having” found instant fame in Nora Ephron’s 1989 witty
October 4, 2013
Noted
Dressing for Success?
Walking from the subway to the Graduate Center, where I teach, I pass by the shop window of the Garment Center, or at least what
September 26, 2013
Noted
Alpha Females Tell Us How to Do It All
Why do women who have what they think other women want–the magical trifecta of ALL: husband, kids, big job―feel the need to tell women who
September 19, 2013
Welcome. Some musings on my current preoccupations with the worlds of illness and the worlds of books, the vicissitudes of living with cancer and the need now, in my eighties, to imagine what new writing might be.