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How Does Your Bookshelf Grow?

Retired Columns

From “Life in the Sandwich” to “Special Needs Mama” to “Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance”—they’re all here for you to explore.

The End of the Year as We Knew It

Having this conversation several times – “Can you recommend a book?” “How about Room?” “No, I can’t/don’t want to/won’t read that.” – has made me think about the books we…

How Does Your Bookshelf Grow? | December 2011 | By Rebecca Steinitz


A Book Reader Becomes a Book Writer

I’ve been a book reader for as long as I can remember, but as of this week — Tuesday October 25, to be precise — I will finally be a…

How Does Your Bookshelf Grow? | October 2011 | By Rebecca Steinitz


Of Books and Clubs and Book Clubs

Am I the only one who starts to shake when someone utters the words book and club in close proximity? From the bottoms of my toes and the tips of…

How Does Your Bookshelf Grow? | October 2011 | By Rebecca Steinitz


Once Upon a Kindle and Other Gateways

Two months ago, Eva announced that she did not like old books because they were long and hard. Last month she read Little Women in a week. How did it…

How Does Your Bookshelf Grow? | July 2011 | By Rebecca Steinitz


Them’s Eating Words

I just finished Allegra Goodman’s new novel, The Cookbook Collector, which is adept and enjoyable (despite the lamentable 9/11 narrative opportunism), and got me thinking about books and food. It’s…

How Does Your Bookshelf Grow? | July 2011 | By Rebecca Steinitz


Of Baby Shoes, Going the Fuck to Sleep, and the Ephemera of Modern Life

I gave birth to my first child fifteen years ago, which is to say, Before Parenting Trended. In the B.P.T. era, maternity clothes were ugly, car seats had no bases…

How Does Your Bookshelf Grow? | June 2011 | By Rebecca Steinitz


A Walk on the Moors

We are making a pilgrimage to Haworth, the Yorkshire home of 19th-century British novelists Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. Mara has recently read Jane Eyre, and Eva’s best friend’s cats…

How Does Your Bookshelf Grow? | May 2011 | By Rebecca Steinitz


Of Mothers and Television

Lately, we’ve been all about the television. Of course we’re also reading. I just reviewed Orlando Figes’s fantastic history of The Crimean War. Having discovered my renowned collection of old…

How Does Your Bookshelf Grow? | April 2011 | By Rebecca Steinitz


On Not Reading War and Peace — or Anything Else

It’s been a long responsible adulthood, with a long way to go. I’ve breastfed my children, worked out, marched against the war, done meaningful work, paid taxes, cooked meals, watched…

How Does Your Bookshelf Grow? | March 2011 | By Rebecca Steinitz


Did You Hear the One About the President’s Daughter?

Bitch Magazine’s list of 100 Young Adult Books for the Feminist Reader clearly struck a chord with feminist moms, given how many of my friends emailed, Facebooked, and Twittered it.…

How Does Your Bookshelf Grow? | February 2011 | By Rebecca Steinitz


Swimming, Reading, Teaching, Learning

I loved everything about teaching swimming except cold water. I loved the kids who eagerly followed my every direction: putting their entire heads underwater to blow bubbles; flailing their arms…

How Does Your Bookshelf Grow? | January 2011 | By Rebecca Steinitz


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