Guarding the Self: Some Notes from the Commute

Guarding the Self: Some Notes from the Commute

The importance of protecting the inner life against the stresses and assaults of ordinary life seems to be on everyone’s minds lately. Vox Populi published...

The Dictator in My Notebook: On Censorship and the Risks of Writing

The Dictator in My Notebook: On Censorship and the Risks of Writing

My mother used to warn me, “Never write anything down you wouldn’t want someone else to read. Not in a letter. Not in a diary....

Writing as a Mother Worker: A Socratic Inquiry

Writing as a Mother Worker: A Socratic Inquiry

Things we know: Lorrie Moore is a writer of humorous fiction, and many would call her prolific and successful. Lorrie Moore is also mother to...

Report from the Field: I Don’t Know How She Does It

Report from the Field: I Don’t Know How She Does It

I can’t remember the first time I heard the phrase in reference to myself: I don’t know how she does it. Perhaps it was when...