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Amy Shearn
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The Lonely Stories
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2022
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The Mermaid of Brooklyn
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2013
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Animal Instinct
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2025
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Unseen City
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2020
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How Far Is the Ocean from Here
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2008
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Dear Edna Sloane
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Jewtopia
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2006
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Hello readers! I'm so grateful to you for being here -- what a service you provide for each other and for writers!
I wanted to share my Substack posts here. But I'm not quite smart enough to figure it out, or perhaps it's simply impossible. At any rate, I'll just share here that I write a free monthly Substack about writing, called How to Get Unstuck. Sometimes I write there about my process writin Read more of this blog post »
I wanted to share my Substack posts here. But I'm not quite smart enough to figure it out, or perhaps it's simply impossible. At any rate, I'll just share here that I write a free monthly Substack about writing, called How to Get Unstuck. Sometimes I write there about my process writin Read more of this blog post »
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“...it had occurred to me that this whole having-children situation was essentially a process of unspooling. Once [my child] had been so close to me that her feet had gotten stuck in my ribs. We lived literally tethered. And then she was born and screamed if she wasn't being nursed or held. But with each day, she unspooled a little farther away--rolling over, eating food, sitting, walking, screaming, 'Go away, Mommy!'--the crimson thread connecting us unraveling more and more as she wandered out into the woods of the world.”
― The Mermaid of Brooklyn
― The Mermaid of Brooklyn
“All the fathers of their generation had to do to count as “good parents” was to express a feeling now and then, as their own fathers never had. All the mothers had to do was everything.”
― Animal Instinct
― Animal Instinct
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“I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.”
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― Wild Geese
“Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.”
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― The Pillow Book
“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”
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“...it had occurred to me that this whole having-children situation was essentially a process of unspooling. Once [my child] had been so close to me that her feet had gotten stuck in my ribs. We lived literally tethered. And then she was born and screamed if she wasn't being nursed or held. But with each day, she unspooled a little farther away--rolling over, eating food, sitting, walking, screaming, 'Go away, Mommy!'--the crimson thread connecting us unraveling more and more as she wandered out into the woods of the world.”
― The Mermaid of Brooklyn
― The Mermaid of Brooklyn
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