Fresh Take: Nicole Graev Lipson

How can women grapple with society's unattainable standards for beauty, femininity, and motherhood? Nicole Graev Lipson, author of the new book MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, discusses how she has started to divorce herself from these ideas and get more comfortable with uncertainty.

Nicole Graev Lipson's essays have appeared in The Best American Essays 2024, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Gettysburg Review, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, The Boston Globe, and more.

Nicole, Amy, and Margaret discuss:

• The role that mothers are expected to play
• How society treats aging women as invisible
• How Nicole learned to sit with her own uncertainty about parenting

Here's where you can find Nicole:

• nicolegraevlipson.com
• @nglipson on IG and @NicoleGLipson on X
• Buy MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9781797228563

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What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson.

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