May 2013
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What did mom give you? What did you give her?
whatmymothergaveme:
My mother, Emilie S. Spaulding, gave me a sense of humor, a crazy laugh, the courage to try new things, and the challenge to love all of humanity.
Amy C. Spaulding, Durham, North Carolina
In case you haven’t gotten your mom a Mother’s Day gift, you can still get the special What My Mother Gave Me complete present — buy any Kobo e-reader at any indie...
“The men did not look human after war’s subtraction: no eye, no ear, no...”
– From Robert Olmstead’s The Coldest Night — one of the David Abrams’ best sentences of the week on The Quivering Pen.
Lauren Grodstein's Tumblr: What I've been... →
lauren-grodstein:
For the past half an hour, on relatively lowbrow speakers: Lost Cause, by Beck, Sailing, by Christopher Cross, Goodnight Moon, by Shivaree, Loco Girl, by Chris Whitley, Award Tour, by Tribe Called Quest, and right now something from Liz Phair’s Whipsmart. I do not have particularly sophisticated…
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“My journey began when the Americans bombed us, in 1943, because it was during...”
– The opening line of The Third Son by Julie Wu.
April 2013
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“Elissa Schapell’s mother gave her a cake pan:
‘When I look at that banged up...”
– From What My Mother Gave Me: Thirty-One Women on the Gifts That Mattered Most (via whatmymothergaveme)
Lauren Grodstein's Tumblr: On being an... →
lauren-grodstein:
I have a small child and a big job, and a lot of little jobs alongside my big job, and it is my curse that I only feel at home in a tidy house, and that I can lose myself in dumb administrative crap for hours. Therefore, my real job, my true job – writing fiction – often becomes something I am too…
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“Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we’ve ever...”
– We’re thinking of mom with our April Lucky 7 e-books — all just $1.99 this month and all with a free preview of the upcoming collection, What My Mother Gave Me
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