The cover of Jane Juska’s book features a newspaper personal ad that reads: “Before I Turn 67—next March—I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me.” This personal ad reveals much about what lies between the covers of A Round-Heeled Wo...
He is a joy, a delight, a treasure. He is exactly who I needed on my return from New England. He would be careful of my rib.Five months before, back in Berkeley, in an effort to stanch the flow of blood from my cuticles and my heart, I lay on Dr. V’s couch, where I gnashed my teeth over Danny the...
Bennet Has Her Say Ch. 22 In Which We Regain Respectability and Coincidence Threatens Abducendus etiam non nunquam animus est ad alia studia, sollicitudines, curas, negotia; loci denique mutatione, tanquam aegroti non convalescentes saepe curandus est. “The mind is sometim...