Maureen Langloss

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The True Story of My Grandmother’s Breasts

May 22, 2015 By Maureen Langloss

I’m pleased to share my latest article, The True Story of My Grandmother’s Breasts, an essay about violence against women, Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist and a short-story gone wrong.  It was published today as part of Prairie Schooner’s series on “Women and the Global … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Essays on Reading, Featured Essay, New Work Tagged With: Bad Feminist, Breast Cancer, Laura Houghteling, Michelle Bachelet, Mireya Navarro, Prairie Schooner, Ray Rice, Robin Thicke, Roxane Gay, Violence against Women, Women's Law Project

Meditations at Spring’s End: Snow Leopards, Pope Francis and Earl-Grey MarTEAnis

May 19, 2015 By Maureen Langloss

“The farmers were here!” my daughter squeals from our back door. We come running from various corners of the house, huddling around the unexpected box from the farm, waiting for it to reveal its treasures. Food stripped down to its elements: the A and the B and the C. Bags of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Essays on Reading Tagged With: Audrey Saunders, Carl Sandburg, Earl Grey MarTEAni, Essex Farm, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Kristin Kimball, Pegu Club, Peter Matthiessen, Pope Francis, Shane McConkey, The Dirty Life, The Secret Garden, The Snow Leopard, Wilderness

In Praise of Naughty Books

May 17, 2015 By Maureen Langloss

At my son’s school book fair this year, I witnessed more than one boy lingering at the Diary of a Wimpy Kid table – lifting the latest edition’s lime green cover, suppressing a mischievous smile, a look of longing in his eye – only to be whisked away by a parent who didn’t want … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Kid Lit Tagged With: Battle Bunny, Captain Underpants, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Jeff Kinney, Jon Scieszka, Judy Blume, Kristine O'Connell George, Pippi Longstocking, Ramono, reluctant readers

New Website

May 9, 2015 By Maureen Langloss

After contributing essays to various blogs, I've decided it's finally time to collect them all in one place.  While I work privately on my novels and short stories, this "blog" will collect my memoir-style, non-fiction pieces that explore how literature can influence, motivate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Work

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Latest Post

Gull flying out over turquoise water

May I Hover Like a Gull

…Why not take the smashed pinecone of my life, render it in purple? Why not dream of baking thirteen pies, six bumbleberry, seven sour cherry? Yes, why not? As you may know, I recently dedicated myself to a new writing practice—a promise to copy a poem a day. And here I am changing the rules […]

Featured Work

A bowl of applies on a dark wood surface. Photo credit: Annie Spratt

The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp

I have a new story, “The Pink Lady, The Honeycrisp,” in Wigleaf today. Wigleaf is one of my very favorite literary magazines; it is a place I go when I need to read something that resonates deeply. I hope my piece resonates in some way with you. I’m grateful to Scott Garson for his smart […]

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