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On resistance and fiction

We just wrapped up watching The Handmaid’s Tale, Hulu’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel.  The show is gripping, stressful to watch, and full of great performances (none more so than Elizabeth Moss as Offred/June).  The early episodes in particular are just brutal. [Spoiler alert, by the way, for anyone who hasn’t watched the show or read the book.] I’ve never...

Fellow travelers

Last week I was in Vermont for the MFA winter residency.   Halfway through the residency I got sick–with the flu, as it turned out, and I think the adjective I’m looking for here is “virulent”–and I was pretty exhausted, physically and otherwise, by the end of the trip.  I was just simply lonely, too, and missed Abbe.  It’s great to hang out with friends and...

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