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Book of the Month: Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (2021) by Suleika Jaouad

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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (2021) by Suleika Jaouad Critical Evaluation "At the tail end of trauma, most people would prefer to hand the sufferer a bucket of silver paint and a brush, and say go ahead, paint the lining. Jaouad tosses the supplies and hops into a Subaru. On the road, she opts for slowness, finding the courage to marinate in unanswered questions and be alone with her thoughts. She drives a jagged constellation, 15,000 miles across the nation, visiting strangers who wrote to her. In each interaction, we meet someone who has encountered a lightless [...]

Book of the Month: Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (2021) by Suleika Jaouadadmin2023-05-22T14:30:23-04:00

On the Merits of Raisin Bread by Stephanie Whetstone

admin2023-09-26T07:29:43-04:00

On the Merits of Raisin Bread by Stephanie Whetstone At Princeton Writes, we are often called upon to help scientists, mathematicians, and writers in other highly technical fields translate their work for the general public—to take complex ideas that people have been working on in labs or on advanced computers for years and bring them into the world in context, not by watering them down, but by making them more accessible to non-specialists. After all, if you can explain your work to funders to continue your research on the human brain or generate interest in things like the impacts of climate [...]

On the Merits of Raisin Bread by Stephanie Whetstoneadmin2023-09-26T07:29:43-04:00

A Poem for You: A Memory of Us by Safia Elhillo

admin2023-05-01T12:22:25-04:00

A Memory of Us BY SAFIA ELHILLO when i think of us i think of the lakewater near longtown, what might not technically constitute a lake but i prefer that word for the open mouth of its vowel, how it called us to its throat & held us there, in the sun, the high points of our faces slick with light & its arc around our shoulders, the soft gathering of flesh around our knees, the lone chair we found near the shore where we took turns posing, jutting out an eloquent hip, cackling in the bright language of flowers for whom [...]

A Poem for You: A Memory of Us by Safia Elhilloadmin2023-05-01T12:22:25-04:00

A Poem for You: I Dare You by Dorianne Laux

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I Dare You by Dorianne Laux It’s autumn, and we’re getting rid of books, getting ready to retire, to move some place smaller, more manageable. We’re living in reverse, age-proofing the new house, nothing on the floors to trip over, no hindrances to the slowed mechanisms of our bodies, a small table for two. Our world is shrinking, our closets mostly empty, gone the tight skirts and dancing shoes, the bells and whistles. Now, when someone comes to visit and admires our complete works of Shakespeare, the hawk feather in the open dictionary, the iron angel on a shelf, we say [...]

A Poem for You: I Dare You by Dorianne Lauxadmin2023-04-11T10:35:21-04:00

Book of the Month: Demon Copperhead (2022) by Barbara Kingsolver

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Book of the Month: Demon Copperhead (2022) by Barbara Kingsolver Critical Evaluation "In 'Demon Copperhead,' Barbara Kingsolver offers a close retelling of Charles Dickens’s 'David Copperfield,' which is either a baffling choice or an ingenious maneuver from a novelist who has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and selected for Oprah’s Book Club and regularly — inevitably, even — appears on the best-seller list of this newspaper, all while reaping a surprising quantity of stinging pans from critics. "Kingsolver’s resurrection of Dickens’s most sentimental (though cherished by many, including me) novel might seem a bit strange — as if Harry Styles [...]

Book of the Month: Demon Copperhead (2022) by Barbara Kingsolveradmin2023-05-22T13:56:49-04:00

A Poem for You: Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising by Paul Tran

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Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising by Paul Tran Sigh of the Santa Ana through the chaparral clinging to the mountain. Through the sunflowers at night, searching for the sun, along the river no longer a river. The wind kissing the river, its stone face, and making each stone a matchbook. A match. A book on fire. The river a library on fire. The wind a woman running through the valley on fire. Searching. The sunflowers turning toward her. Her nightgown a book turning its own bright pages in the wind. Smoke the color of chaparral. Smoke clinging to her, making [...]

A Poem for You: Taurus Sun, Cancer Moon, Scorpio Rising by Paul Tranadmin2023-04-11T10:20:23-04:00

A Poem for You: Who’s That BY ANA BOŽIČEVIĆ

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Who's That BY ANA BOŽIČEVIĆ Eloquent Silence of everyone I ever loved This cloudy Friday evening Spring but still cold A smattering of new buds Who's that Swaddled in The uneasy atmosphere In silence No chatter or pleasant surprise The lusty rush of a weekend With the beloved Who's that Sprouting now out of The cottony silence With silky whips Still hanging from their little chops Who is it straining To pop out Of the hardwood Rings of time Into the cool air Like there's another cool world On the other side of this one Worth pushing Through to or maybe We're [...]

A Poem for You: Who’s That BY ANA BOŽIČEVIĆadmin2023-04-06T12:21:21-04:00

A Poem for You: In Spring BY ROSE KING

admin2023-04-06T12:17:06-04:00

In Spring BY ROSE KING I'm out with the wheelbarrow mixing mulch. A mockingbird trills in the pine. Then, from higher, a buzz, and through patches of blue as the fog burns off, a small plane pulls a banner, red letters I can't read— but I do see, over the fence, a man in a sky-blue shirt walking his dog to the beach. He says he missed it, will keep an eye out. Four barrows of mulch around the blueberry bushes, I'm pulling off gloves, and he's back, beaming. "It says, I LOVE YOU, MARTHA. Are you Martha?"

A Poem for You: In Spring BY ROSE KINGadmin2023-04-06T12:17:06-04:00

A Poem for You: Dream Nest by Dana Levin

admin2023-04-06T09:56:13-04:00

Dream Nest Dana Levin More like a basket of twig and hair, surprisingly tall and deep— in a tree outside my bedroom window. I knew something lived in there you wouldn’t assume lived in a nest. Then I knew: a human lived there. And once I knew— the nest, nearly disintegrated, still in the tree. It wasn’t about trauma, the perfect and then the broken nest in which a human lived— Born and lit and [...]

A Poem for You: Dream Nest by Dana Levinadmin2023-04-06T09:56:13-04:00

Book of the Month: Heartburn by Nora Ephron

admin2023-04-10T14:50:12-04:00

Heartburn by Nora Ephron Critical Evaluation “Heartburn” is a comic novel, written in the first person, about cookbook author Rachel Samstat. In almost every way, Rachel resembles Ephron. It is a withering revenge novel that follows one of her most Instagramable, tote-bag-worthy dictums: “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” With “Heartburn,” Ephron reaped artistic and financial hay from the heartbreak of her second marriage. Others have followed her lead ever since. “Heartburn” is a Washington novel and a Washington Post novel: It’s based on Ephron’s explosive breakup with legendary Post Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, who had [...]

Book of the Month: Heartburn by Nora Ephronadmin2023-04-10T14:50:12-04:00

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