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Chicago Pope’s First Changes
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Moms Have a Secret: They Want Cigarettes for Mother’s Day
“Listen very carefully: Moms don’t want a pendant that says MAMA or a sweatshirt that says I’M IN MY MOM ERA. Moms want to lie on the hammocks smoking cigarettes, listening to the Doobie Brothers.” -
Chekhov’s Gun,
Applied to Motherhood“If the mother finds time to schedule her first haircut in eight months in the opening act, the school will announce a lice outbreak in the next act.” -
Open Letters to People or Entities Who Are Unlikely to Respond
An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy
“You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That they’ll never pay taxes or write poems. That they are, in essence, collateral damage. I’d like to introduce you to my daughter.”
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April 25, 2025This Five-Hundred-Word Bumper Sticker on My Tesla Explains Why I’m Not a Bad Person
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May 8, 2025An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy
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May 6, 2025Introducing Our University’s New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure
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May 5, 2025Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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May 9, 2025Chicago Pope’s First Changes
Interviews, Essays, and Excerpts
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May 8, 2025Letters to Moms: A Letter to Back to the Future’s Lorraine Baines-McFly
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May 5, 2025Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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May 2, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: An Interview with Delroy Lindo
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May 1, 2025Short Conversations with Poets: Derek Mong
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April 25, 2025Excerpts from The Believer: 16
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April 24, 2025Reviews of New Food: Sunshine La Croix
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April 22, 2025An Excerpt from Rachel Deutsch’s Graphic Memoir The Mother
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