Kathryn Schulz
Staff Writer at The New Yorker
Staff writer at the @newyorker; author of the memoir “Lost & Found"; used to like Twitter; no longer here.
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3 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Kathryn Schulz
Last September, my newly three-year-old daughter strode into preschool for the first time, sporting a ladybug shirt, red pants, and the particular high-wattage, full-dimple grin she usually reserves for dashing gleefully into our bedroom at seven-thirty in the morning. Like any parent, I was slightly teary and enormously, stupidly proud. How momentous it seemed, this new stage of life; how beautiful, to watch her start to spread her tender roots into the world. Or spread something, anyway.
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1 month ago |
l8r.it | Helen Jukes |Solomon Northup |Will Smith |Kathryn Schulz
Mother Animal Synopsis MOTHER ANIMAL: A STARTLINGLY NEW VISION OF MOTHERHOOD from the author of A Honeybee Heart Has Five OpeningsWhen Helen Jukes falls pregnant, she does what anyone else would do. She searches for information to help make sense of the changes underway inside her. But as the months pass and her body becomes increasingly strange,?the pregnancy guides seem insufficient; even the advice of her friends feels oppressive.
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Sep 9, 2024 |
newyorker.com | Kathryn Schulz
Meanwhile, our other hero, Mal Arvorian, is growing up under a similar constraint. Mal has an ability that, even in the Archipelago, is rare in humans: she can fly, although only when wearing a coat given to her by a stranger at birth and only when the wind is blowing. In a different sense, however, her wings are clipped.
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Aug 26, 2024 |
newyorker.com | Kathryn Schulz
Write about what you know, they say. All due respect, that’s lousy advice, far too easily misinterpreted as “write about what you already know.” No doubt you find your own knowledge valuable, your own experiences compelling, the plot twists of your own past gripping; so do we all, but the storehouse of a single life seldom equips us adequately for the task of writing.
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Jul 1, 2024 |
newyorker.com | Kathryn Schulz
When I am stuck on something I’m trying to write and have exhausted all the other options—ignoring the problem, staring blankly at the problem, moving the problem around to see if it’s less annoying in some other location, eating all the chocolate in the house—I eventually do what I should have done in the first place and go read some writer who is much better at this business than I am. The candidates are legion.
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As for me, I cried half a dozen times while writing this piece about the mother who founded @PFLAG. When her son was outed in 1968, homosexuality was illegal in 49 states. Instead of trying to change him, she set about trying to change the world. https://t.co/xSW19qUCEB
The one by @cncep is this spectacularly comic and interesting piece on Charles Portis (of "True Grit" fame), which opens like this and only gets funnier: "It was a source of some annoyance to Charles Portis that Shakespeare never wrote about Arkansas." https://t.co/uYlNFRLc6U
Second: it took YEARS, but @cncep and I finally have a piece in the @NewYorker at the same time.
