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Kate Chopin: A Writer of and beyond Her Time
“Kate Chopin: A Writer of and beyond Her Time.” Women and Southern Naturalism in the Fiction of Kate Chopin. Gale Researcher Guide, July 2018.
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Kate Chopin in Context: New Approaches
Kate Chopin in Context: New Approaches. Co-Editor with Heather Ostman. Palgrave-MacMillan, September 2015.
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How it Begins
An outside observer might think the ground floor of this two-family Tudor-style McMansion in northeastern Queens is empty: coming from a 500-square-foot junior 1-bedroom on the Lower East Side means that Sheila and Pat’s furniture fills only the southwest corner of the living room. Last month Pat’s mom surprised Sheila with an elaborate baby shower,…
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Clearview to Nowhere
I spy the moon on the eastbound Long Island Expressway service road from between a tow truck and a Parks Department pick-up loaded with dead limbs and recently felled branches. Green leaves form a rooftop garden on top of the truck.
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Common Core Standards
“Nothing’s wrong,” the school social worker says, which is the first lie. She wants to talk to me about my oldest daughter. Desi reverses her letters, transposes words, neglects punctuation, and writes sentences that, with their randomized use of capitals, look like ransom notes.