In this New York Times bestseller, sixteen literary luminaries on the controversial subject of being childless by choice. This collection makes a smart and passionate case for why parenthood is not the only path to a happy, productive life, and takes our parent-centric, kid-fixated, baby-bump-patrolling culture to task in the process.
In this New York Times bestseller, sixteen literary luminaries on the controversial subject of being childless by choice. This collection makes a smart and passionate case for why parenthood is not the only path to a happy, productive life, and takes our parent-centric, kid-fixated, baby-bump-patrolling culture to task in the process.
Meghan Daum is the author of the essay collection The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion. She is also the editor of the anthology Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on the Decision Not to Have Kids. Her other books include the essay collection My Misspent Youth, the novel The Quality of Life Report, and Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived In That House, a memoir. Since 2005, Meghan has been an opinion columnist for The Los Angeles Times, writing on political, cultural, and social affairs. She has contributed to public radio's Morning Edition, Marketplace, and This American Life, and has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, GQ, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in Los Angeles.
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CONTENTS Introduction by Meghan Daum - 1 Babes in the Woods by Courtney Hodell - 11 Maternal Instincts by Laura Kipnis - 31 A Thousand Other Things by Kate Christensen - 47 The New Rhoda by Paul Lisicky - 63 Be Here Now Means Be Gone Later by Lionel Shriver - 77 The Most Important Thing by Sigrid Nunez - 97 Mommy Fearest by Anna Holmes - 119 Amateurs by Michelle Huneven - 131 Save Yourself by Danielle Henderson - 14 The Trouble with Having It All by Pam Houston - 163 Beyond Beyond Motherhood by Jeanne Safer - 185 Over and Out by Geoff Dyer - 197 You'd Be Such a Good Mother, If Only You Weren't You by M. G. - 209 Lord The Hardest Art by Rosemary Mahoney - 227 Just an Aunt by Elliott Holt - 245 The End of the Line by Tim Kreider - 261 Acknowledgments - 275 Contributors - 277
CONTENTS Introduction by Meghan Daum - 1 Babes in the Woods by Courtney Hodell - 11 Maternal Instincts by Laura Kipnis - 31 A Thousand Other Things by Kate Christensen - 47 The New Rhoda by Paul Lisicky - 63 Be Here Now Means Be Gone Later by Lionel Shriver - 77 The Most Important Thing by Sigrid Nunez - 97 Mommy Fearest by Anna Holmes - 119 Amateurs by Michelle Huneven - 131 Save Yourself by Danielle Henderson - 14 The Trouble with Having It All by Pam Houston - 163 Beyond Beyond Motherhood by Jeanne Safer - 185 Over and Out by Geoff Dyer - 197 You'd Be Such a Good Mother, If Only You Weren't You by M. G. - 209 Lord The Hardest Art by Rosemary Mahoney - 227 Just an Aunt by Elliott Holt - 245 The End of the Line by Tim Kreider - 261 Acknowledgments - 275 Contributors - 277
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