Category: November 2019

Review: Edna’s Gift: How My Broken Sister Taught Me to Be Whole by Susan Rudnick

As a woman diagnosed with MRKH, my editor was eager to send me her book to review, and I was eager to read it.

The … memoir brings to mind Frankenstein’s creature: assembled from parts; shouldn’t be alive; yet lives and invokes great compassion.

I’d been to war, but nothing I had ever gone through even comes close to what these survivors went/are still going through.

…to understand how I feel about my infertility, you have to know about two things: the Poochie Overnighter, and Cold Fusion.

Sixteen years ago I left my ultra-Orthodox Jewish family: my father, the community Rabbi, my mother…

The day I went to see the whale, I was on the deck of a small vessel off the coast of Kaikōura, New Zealand.

It was after the first snow when I learned Detroit was built on a salt mine.

Sitting in the band’s touring van as we waited for our new driver, Mario, I was once again surrounded by smoke.

…interviewing an author isn’t as simple as picking up the phone and talking—there’s a lot of preparatory work…

Before 2015, procrastination was the name of my game…