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.

Shirley Jackson’s Motivating Motherhood

I wonder: would having babies motivate me? Would it supercharge my focus and force me to finish my book?

Rachel Cusk & The Sanctity of the Writer’s Room

So why, we might ask, doesn’t she have manuscripts, notebooks, cocktail napkins—all the anticipated ephemera of the working writer?

It’s because she is a mother.