Michele Filgate
Writer and Editor at Freelance
Writer. Editor of WHAT MY MOTHER AND I DON'T TALK ABOUT and WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON'T TALK ABOUT.
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5 days ago |
largeheartedboy.com | Michele Filgate
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Michele Filgate’s anthologyWhat My Father and I Don’t Talk About is filled with empathetical and powerful stories of father-child relationships.
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1 month ago |
lithub.com | Michele Filgate
My father has untreated ADHD. Two years ago, at thirty-nine, I verified a longtime suspicion and was diagnosed with the same disorder. When we talk on the phone we talk at each other rather than to each other. Let me tell you something, my father says. Nancy makes the best meatballs. He tells me he fed some of the coveted leftover meatballs my stepmom made for him to a fox that frequents their yard. I think it’s sweet he shared them with a wild animal. I ran around the park today, I say.
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1 month ago |
flipboard.com | Michele Filgate
2 hours agoLanguage As Identity: How Dragon Academy Is Reinventing The Way The Next Generation LearnsThe future of education isn’t being written in classrooms—it’s unfolding in story-driven apps, AI-generated worlds, and social feeds that shape identity as much as they deliver knowledge.
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Mar 1, 2025 |
simonandschuster.com | Michele Filgate
A follow-up to the wildly successful What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About, this collection of essays from sixteen notable writers breaks the silence on the complex—and sometimes contentious—relationships we have with our fathers. has become a rare gem in the literary world.
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Jun 25, 2023 |
electricliterature.com | Dani Shapiro |Michele Filgate |DIANE BROWN
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RT @HarvardBooks: 📅Weds. 6/11 @ 6PM: Michele Filgate joins us at the Brattle to discuss "What My Father and I Don't Talk About: Sixteen Wri…
Thanks to @lithub for publishing a new essay I wrote for WHAT MY FATHER AND I DON’T TALK ABOUT. I wrote about grief & love & holding on to the objects that connect us to our past. https://t.co/HwVZMMhtoc
RT @SimonBooks: Dylan Landis explores complex dynamic with her psychoanalyst father, marked by intellectual engagement but emotional blind…
