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On A Vindication of Love: acute feelings, acute intellects

My appreciation of Cristina Nerhing’s A Vindication of Love is up at NPR. Nowadays a woman can claim just about anything as a badge of feminism. She can pursue a career, raise a child, or both; maintain a stable of lovers, marry, or both; serve in the military; sit on the Supreme Court; stay home and keep house; or take . . .

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My final Four-Letter Word reading

I’m reading one last time from Conversations You Have at Twenty, my Love is a Four-Letter Word contribution, at Cornelia Street Cafe tonight (9/1) with D.E. Rasso, Emily Flake, and Michelle Green. Russ Marshalek hosts, and we get started at 6 p.m. (In remembrance of the last time D.E. and I were on Cornelia Street together, three years ago: On . . .

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Solnit, interviewed

A great refuser of genre: Benjamin Cohen talks with the brilliant Rebecca Solnit (A Paradise Built in Hell) for The Believer.

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