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Joan Wickersham’s memoir The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order was a National Book Award Finalist as well as appearing on “best books of the year” lists including the Boston Globe, the LA Times, New York Magazine, Salon, and the Washington Post. She is also the author of a novel, The Paper Anniversary, and her fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and is forthcoming in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Joan writes a regular op-ed column for the Boston Globe and has contributed on-air essays to the NPR shows “On Point” and “Morning Edition.” She has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo.
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The invasion of the garden snatcher
By Joan Wickersham,
In small doses, bishop’s weed is actually quite lovely. The problem is that there is almost no such thing as a small dose of bishop’s weed.
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When reality TV collides with reality
By Joan Wickersham,
A popular reality show took a very serious turn, but showed viewers something important, lovely, and true.
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The bunny who stayed with us
By Joan Wickersham,
Some books get under your skin in childhood and stay there. One, for me, was “The Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes,’’ by DuBose Heyward.
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Why ‘I didn’t want to worry you’ worries you
By Joan Wickersham,
Why does it go on, this strange minuet of omission and belated confession between parents and their adult children?