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    Edmund White, Memoir & Astro Reading
    Lelia
    • Apr 30
    • 7 min

    Edmund White, Memoir & Astro Reading

    About halfway through reading My Lives by Edmund White, I expected to give it a two-star rating. White spends so much time narrating his...
    Desire in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
    Lelia
    • Mar 12
    • 4 min

    Desire in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

    In Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde uses the erotic, or what Mary Karr might call the carnal, to deeply embed herself in her...
    Bernardine Evaristo, Elaine Dundy, Patti Smith & Resilience
    Lelia
    • Feb 28
    • 4 min

    Bernardine Evaristo, Elaine Dundy, Patti Smith & Resilience

    There’s a great passage in Manifesto: On Never Giving Up where Bernardine Evaristo declares “In spite of what my father endured, he never...
    An Imaginary Astrology Reading for Joyce Carol Oates: Part I
    Lelia
    • Feb 18
    • 6 min

    An Imaginary Astrology Reading for Joyce Carol Oates: Part I

    Imagine that Joyce Carol Oates*—who does not seem the type to sit with an astrologer, but let’s pretend—came to see me for a New Year’s...
    Barbara Pym's Full and Quiet Life
    Lelia
    • Feb 9
    • 2 min

    Barbara Pym's Full and Quiet Life

    A Very Private Eye, Barbara Pym’s autobiography in diaries and letters, is lovely in just the way Barbara Pym’s novels are lovely: quiet...
    My Best-of Book List for 2021
    Lelia
    • Jan 2
    • 4 min

    My Best-of Book List for 2021

    I like year-end best-of lists. Reading others’ lists is a fun way to learn about things I’ve missed. And thinking about my own best-of...
    Alter Ego as Creative Muse
    Lelia
    • Dec 24, 2021
    • 2 min

    Alter Ego as Creative Muse

    To my delight, I fell down a Maxine Hong Kingston rabbit hole and discovered this gem from an interview in The Guardian. Describing a...
    Eudora Welty + Aries + Guilt
    Lelia
    • Dec 20, 2021
    • 3 min

    Eudora Welty + Aries + Guilt

    I’m entranced by Eudora Welty right now. Reading her short story "Livvie," I’m awed by how much Welty does in just ten pages. In One...
    Memoir, Elderhood & Saturn
    Lelia
    • Dec 16, 2021
    • 5 min

    Memoir, Elderhood & Saturn

    Having read Angela’s Ashes and The Liar’s Club in quick succession, I was beginning to think that the only enjoyable memoirs overflow...
    Memoir and the Moon
    Lelia
    • Dec 8, 2021
    • 3 min

    Memoir and the Moon

    I used to pay a lot of attention to the first lines in books. I had a notebook where I wrote them down and classified them according to...
    Dickens, Frank McCourt and Compassion
    Lelia
    • Dec 5, 2021
    • 3 min

    Dickens, Frank McCourt and Compassion

    In Sally Ledger’s Introduction to Charles Dickens’ The Christmas Books, she writes, “Redemption through suffering is a significant...
    Mary Karr, Memoir and the South Node
    Lelia
    • Dec 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    Mary Karr, Memoir and the South Node

    Ooph.I was relishing Mary Karr’s delicious language, but didn’t realize that this line I so admired - “Maybe it's wrong to blame the...
    Savoring Language
    Lelia
    • Dec 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Savoring Language

    I’m learning to slow down and savor Mary Karr’s The Liar’s Club. It’s a good story that gallops along and then arrests my attention with...
    I Finally Read Eat, Pray, Love
    Lelia
    • Sep 29, 2021
    • 5 min

    I Finally Read Eat, Pray, Love

    And the most disappointing thing about the book is the way Liz Gilbert seems to suggest that in finding Felipe she’s completed her...

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