Diary
2020: Friendship Stories, Part 3: Friends Met and Unmet
What I remember about Carolyn with an onslaught of intellectual agita is not solely the artifact of a major death anniversary, but also the surprising effects of an earlier encounter with an interesting young woman.
1997: Friendship Stories, Part 2: “I’m hoping you’ll like it.”
Had I told Carolyn the mismemory story (see part 1) many years later, at one of our weekly dinners, confessed my confusion and embarrassment but also made light
Friendship Stories Remembered: A Mismemory, Part 1
It was October 1992. Carolyn had retired from Columbia after the spring semester—early, as retirements go these days, at sixty-six. The head of the Women’s […]
October Anniversaries, encore
October 10 is my friend Naomi Schor’s birthday. She would have turned 80 this year. Naomi’s Breaking the Chain: Women, Theory, and French Realist Fiction was one of
October Anniversaries
OCTOBER 22, 1992: “Out of the Academy and into the World with Carolyn G. Heilbrun”: This is how I want to remember Carolyn Heilbrun, the lady in blue
New Year, New Book
I’m happy to welcome 2023 by announcing the publication of a new collection — Feminists Reclaim Mentorship: An Anthology — that I’ve co-imagined and co-edited with Tahneer Oksman.
Is this Recovery?
Year 10 of my scan-to-scan existence. I don’t know what’s more amazing: that I’m still alive or that the cancer has become (almost) chronic. Please check out the
Border Crossings, May 2008
According to today’s reporting, more than 70,000 thousand refugees have fled Ukraine for Moldova. I return in memory, shock, and disbelief to my Eastern European “roots trip,” as
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.