"They'll keep you thirty days or until your insurance runs out. Then you're cured." It is August 1992. Suzanne Scanlon writes her own story, that of a Freshman woman at Barnard, not quite fitting in, becoming desperately lonely, her main friend a guy she knows who talks suicide with her. Ultimately, she tries it and … Continue reading Committed – Suzanne Scanlon
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The Lunar Housewife – Caroline Woods
The Lunar Housewife is a delicious novel, focusing on Louise Leithauser, an aspiring writer who finds herself on the fringes of cold war activity during the McCarthy era. The novel opens at a party in 1953, filled with literary luminaries and pretty women, gathered at a Manhattan apartment to celebrate the second issue of the … Continue reading The Lunar Housewife – Caroline Woods
They Called me Bookworm 