After My Parents Passed Away - In

My Role Models Were Childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, The Brontes.

When My Brother Called To Inform Me, On The Morning Of May 22, 2003, That Our Mother Caroline Oates Had Died Suddenly Of A Stroke, It Was A Shock From Which, In A Way, I Have Yet To Recover.

A Diverse And Lively Collection, The Highest Art Of The Interview.

When A Marriage Ends, Who Is Left To Understand It?

Later, Her First Intense, Serious Love Affair, Yes Then She'd Lost Something More Tangible, If Undefinable: Her Heart? Her Independence? Her Control Of, Definition Of, Self? That First True Loss, The Furious Bafflement Of It. And Never Again Quite So Assured, Confident.