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A History of the Infant Christ Being Given Piggy-Back Rides in Western Art
It’s sweet, too, to see a sentiment like “They grow up so fast — I wish they could stay babies a little longer” so many parents feel toward their own…
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The Two Monks Illuminate Some Manuscripts
MONK #2: Here I’ve done the vision of St John of the Eagle and the Christ-Childand I thought the eagle must have been rather surprised, you know, to see…
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"Some merry at dinner and dead at supper"
Edward Hall, who wrote the Tudor history Hall’s Chronicle, described the plague year of 1523 when, “Suddenly there came a plague of sickness, called the…
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I Am The Horrible Goose That Lives In The Town
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Jane Austen's Persuasion, Part III
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Finally Taking My Own Advice About Thanksgiving
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Thoughts on a Phone Call
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"As A Trans Man, Thanks For Being So Welcoming Of Trans Men; Weird That There's No Trans Women Here"
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You've Got To Brush Even Baby Teeth Every Day, You Know
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"Why I stole my mother's lover" – a partial inspiration for "Women's Hotel"
I got to do a fun group interview with LitHub that’s out this week, if you’d care to read it.
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"I Accuse You Of Wanting To Be Pope": Conclave Makes Sure You Know You're At The Movies
no spoilers I swear
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What Will Please The Baby?
The baby is two days shy of being seven months old.
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All I Want Is To Be Humbled By My Success This Year
All I want is to become well and truly humbled by my success this year.
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Women's Hotel Book Tour
Why not come out and see me on the Women’s Hotel book tour this month?
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I'll Tell You This For Free: Never Soak A Pan For Any Longer Than Twenty Minutes
Your job was to soak it, now it’s being soaked, later on something else will probably happen, but that’s not your concern. Once you go down that path…
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Force-Ranking Choir Directors By Hotness in Alcman's Partheneion
Should you like to preorder a copy of my next book, Women’s Hotel, from the Strand, you can do so here. Should you like a 20% discount in doing so, you…
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The Chatner
A newsletter about rejiggered classics, transmasculine underpinnings of the plucky heroine, and the failure-limits of graciousness, from table manners to family estrangement.
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