Status Updates From The Deadline: Essays

If the buttoned-up conventions of history bugged me when I started out, so did a different kind of writing: the tits-out memoir, where the only authority the author holds … is the authority of personal experience. I watched fascinating women, scholars, investigative reporters, novelists, who had all kinds of knowledge about all kinds of things, end up writing about girlhood, womanhood, motherhood, and widowhood.