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The object parade
\"This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it? Which objects would you choose? What memories do they hold? And lined up in a row, what stories do they have to tell? In recalling her experience, Dinah's essays each begin with one thing - real or imaginary, lost or found, rare or ordinary, animal, vegetable, mineral, edible. Each object comes with a memory or a story, and so sparks an opportunity for rue or reflection or confession or revelation, having to do with her coming of age as a daughter, mother, actor, and writer: the piano that holds secrets to family history and inheritance; the gifted watches that tell so much more than time; the little black dress that carries all of youth's love and longing; the purple scarf that stands in for her journey from New York to Los Angeles, across stage and screen, to pursue her acting dream. Read together or apart, the essays project the bountiful mosaic of life and love, of moving to Los Angeles and raising a family; of coming to terms with place, relationship, failures, and success; of dealing with up-ended notions about home and family and career and aging, too. Taken together, they add up to a pastiche of an artful and quirky life, lovingly remembered, compellingly told, wrapped up in the ties that bind the passage of time. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Postcard or Wish You Were Here
The Spring 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares \"the Triton among minnows.\" The Spring 2025 Issue, edited by Peggy Schumaker, features poetry and prose by Naomi Shihab Nye, Felicia Zamora, Tim Seibles, Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Lia Purpura, Sonja Livingston, Marjorie Sandor, and more.
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Like One of Those Songs that You Can’t Get Out of Your Head
Lenney pays tribute to writer Judith Kitchen and explores one of her favoirte essays, Proportion, from Kitchen's Distance and Direction. The essay is aptly titled in terms of its structure, and also because it considers the ratio between wanting and doing, expectation and failure.
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Exploring theties that divideLatinos in U.S
[...] the farther we get from the order and calm of the Torres family's McMansion, the more believable, if bizarre, events become in Tobar's vivid rendering of people and place.
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Coming to terms with Christmas
What a relief when the Christmas regalia was finally removed and our house looked like a regular house again, not shrunken and bereft. [...] we hunkered down and waited out the party.
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Grandparents fill in after daughter's death
Early on, Rosenblatt, an essayist, author and playwright, describes Amy's gift for the celebration of occasions great and small, the qualities Yeats wished for in 'A Prayer for My Daughter. ' [...] he and Ginny step in as Boppo and Mimi to help with the family choreography of the everyday and the extraordinary: piano lessons, play dates, family vacations, holidays, starting with that very first Christmas.
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