Crafting with Ursula : Julie Phillips on the Writing Mother
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Carrier Bag, Theory of Fiction
Tus: What is the subjective experience of being a mother? And why, despite a steadily growing body of writing on the phenomenology of mothering, does it still seem so unnarratable and undramatic? Tus: i feel like leguin is asking these questions, or similar kindred questions to the ones youpose hat i am quoting with the carrier bag. You pointed me to shoby's story, which i hadt never read before a short story that does this, and which you've written and delivered a talk on yourself,. I was hoping you could read a short part of it and then talked to us about leguin bringing motherhood and the domestic, even the house itself
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