Excerpt: 'The Mansion of Happiness' by Jill Lepore
About the Author:
Jill Lepore is a writer and professor of American history at Harvard University and chair of Harvard’s History and Literature Program.
About the Author:
Jill Lepore is a writer and professor of American history at Harvard University and chair of Harvard’s History and Literature Program.
Reading handwriting: allowing time for the development of the next sound-thought. A slowdown. Handwritten: evidence of the body making the poem, the text. Blood moving, skin touching paper, the hand is warm.
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These trailblazers, who studied law between the late 1860s and the mid-1880s, became the first generation of American women lawyers…
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It was mid-afternoon, and the train she rode first wrenched then eased around a bend in the track before it pulled into Bahnhof Dietlikon at thirty-four past the hour, as ever.
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Gridlocked traffic, summer solstice, 9.15am. Upper deck 243, Dalston Junction to Goswell Road, who wouldn’t look down on this sort of commute?
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The tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
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The thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
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I spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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