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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

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Grassy area of blithe wood on the Bard College Campus overlooking the Hudson River with a single adirondack chair in the distance and blue sky

Assembling Rabbit Hill

When my son was in the first grade, he asked if we could write a book together. Absolutely thrilled by the suggestion, as any writer-slash-mother would be, I immediately hopped to my feet, grabbed some pens, and tore a few pages from the massive box of connected dot matrix paper that we were still working […]

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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