The Short Stories I Found in the Sweater Box
When I was cleaning out my father’s home after he died, I came across a sweater box under his bed. In it were...
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Category Archives: Untold Stories
12
May
Good Reads, The Writing Process, Untold Stories
The novel, “Midwives,” 20 years later: What was the early reaction to the novel like? Has it changed over time?
It was twenty years ago that “Midwives” was published: 1997. Seinfeld was still on the air. The Spice Girls had two of the...
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10
May
The Writing Process, Untold Stories, Vermont
The novel, “Midwives,” 20 years later: Is there anything I would update or change?
It was twenty years ago that “Midwives” was published: 1997. I had hair then. Our phones were considerably less smart. Our books were...
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26
Apr
Armenia, Untold Stories
Naming the Armenian Genocide for what it is
ADOLF HITLER KEPT a bust of Ataturk in his office. Heinrich Himmler considered moving to Turkey in the early 1920s. And Rudolf Hoess,...
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04
Jan
Good Reads, The Writing Process, Untold Stories
An interview in which I reveal my favorite children’s book, what I did before I became a novelist, and my response to one very garish dust jacket
Over the holidays, I was interviewed about my work and “The Sleepwalker” by Laura Hamlett of Playback St. Louis. I thought her questions...
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16
Dec
Armenia, Untold Stories
My Proud Pilgrimage to My Homeland — and Our Line in the Sand
The forward trenches in the hills just beyond the abandoned village of Talish, in Nagorno-Karabakh, are reminiscent of World War I: long, endless,...
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Good Reads, Untold Stories
REPOST: They don’t make toys like they used to — thank heavens
The bug wasn’t Gregor Samsor-big. We’re not talking Kafkaesque. But in my memory it was the size of a cat. It was vaguely...
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21
Oct
Armenia, Untold Stories
Putting a Face on the Refugee Crisis
For most of America, the heartbreaking faces of Syrian refugees this year have belonged to children. We have seen them drowned and we...
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24
Dec
Good Reads, Untold Stories
1968: The Year Christmas Eve Meant the Moon
Forty-nine years ago tonight, December 24th, the three astronauts from the Apollo 8 mission to the moon were approaching the lunar sunrise. Yes,...
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16
Aug
The Writing Process, Untold Stories, Vermont
A little too much like life: Aging and the approaching end to Idyll Banter
In one of the last weeks of my father’s life — though we had no idea at the time that he would...
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