Margot Parmenter 5/23/21 Margot Parmenter 5/23/21

We Need More Characters Like Jhumpa Lahiri’s Narrator

It is rather unusual to see single, solitary women depicted accurately in fiction. It’s as if, unobserved in life, they have also fled the stage of literature, their independence insulating them from narrative force.

Margot Parmenter 5/21/21 Margot Parmenter 5/21/21

I Don’t Want to Be Claire Dederer’s “Poser”

Dispensing with role-playing may be, I think after reading Dederer’s book, necessary to becoming a fully realized adult. And if I am to become a mother, as “a fully realized adult” is the only way I want to do it.

Margot Parmenter 4/30/21 Margot Parmenter 4/30/21

Rivka Galchen’s Restful Worship

The problem isn’t and never has been motherhood itself. The problem has always been me—my fragile focus, so easily shattered; my delicate ambition, easily spooked but not as easily relinquished.

Margot Parmenter 4/23/21 Margot Parmenter 4/23/21

Rufi Thorpe & Making the Most of Myself

The irony of this entire inquiry is that I spent most of my twenties trying and failing to throw my self away.