Caitlin Flanagan

In this way it is dreamy, fairy-tale like, and very much in keeping with the great nanny memoirs - The Little Princesses by Marion Crawford and White House Nanny by Maud Shaw

Caitlin Flanagan

“Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.” ― William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! https://t.co/9Rp003YjIR

Caitlin Flanagan

I was in Ireland ... and I was bored out of my mind, as I always was in the summer, and I happened to see a copy of Slouching Towards Bethlehem in a Dublin living room. I read that book and something changed inside me, and it has stayed that way for the rest of my life.

Caitlin Flanagan

Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album created a new vocabulary of essay writing, one whose influence is on display every day of the week in the tide of personal essays published online by young writers.

Caitlin Flanagan

Educating a bot with 3 follower on the anxiety of influence re the Jacques Lacan and Derrida is an excellent use of my time. The ocean is wide but my teaspoon is sturdy https://t.co/VzwGo4CuOp

Caitlin Flanagan

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” Didion What stories do you tell yourself in order to live with your opinion on abortion? ⁦@bariweiss⁩ and I talked about what we tell ourselves. https://t.co/aJtLQ7OWqk

Caitlin Flanagan

@ASFleischman @Chriss_m But we did teach I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings to 8th graders. Maya Angelou spoke directly to that age group and never pandered to them.

Caitlin Flanagan

When I knew she was dying, I got in my car and went to find her: in Hollywood and Malibu, Berkeley and Sacramento As Robert Frost wrote, "I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too. https://t.co/7Bk63x8dEv

Caitlin Flanagan

I picked up Slouching Towards Bethlehem in 1975, the year I was 14... I read that book and something changed inside me, and it has stayed that way for the rest of my life.

Caitlin Flanagan

All I Want for Christmas Are My 2 Front Teeth Or Last Minute Gift Ideas for the 60 year old in Your Life Or Cancer: A Love Story Rejected titles for the world’s worst Christmas story It’s a perennial! https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/12/cancer-teeth-loss/621103/