BENNINGTON Sixteen critically acclaimed, award-winning authors and faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars will host Writers Reading, an evening reading series during the MFA program s summer residency, which is
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Remember the “mommy wars”?
The term started to gain popularity in the early 1990s and was the subject of magazine features, blog posts, and even a 2006 book with essays by high-profile writers like Jane Smiley and Susan Cheever. In the beginning, the term referred largely to conflicts between moms who worked for pay and those who stayed home with their kids.
But over time, it expanded to include a whole host of “rivalries between mothering philosophies and practices,” from sleep training to breastfeeding to screen time to discipline, Jenna Abetz, a professor of communication at the College of Charleston who has studied American motherhood, told Vox. “More than ever, it feels like moms are fragmented into these smaller and smaller camps and forced to sort of justify and defend their own parenting choices.”
Blake Baileyâs Philip Roth, a volume Roth had imagined in some form for more than 20 years, was published internationally this week, and will be released in hardback on June 16 in Australia. Ever willing to provoke or amplify an argument, the author of
American Pastoral,
Sabbathâs Theater and other novels had been thinking of a biography ever since his former wife, actor Claire Bloom, depicted him as unfaithful, cruel and irrational in her 1996 memoir
Leaving a Dollâs House.
Roth was determined to have his side come out, but wanted someone else to tell it. He first recruited Ross Miller, an English professor and nephew of playwright Arthur Miller, but became so unhappy with what he believed was Millerâs narrow scope that the two had a falling out. So in 2012, Roth brought in Bailey, granting him full access to his papers, his friends and, the highest hurdle, the author himself. Bailey would have the final say.