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January 6, 2009

A Gloom of One’s Own

In the new Atlantic Monthly, Sandra Tsing Loh looks at a bestselling anthology about women with demanding lives:

Full disclosure: I was asked to submit material for The Bitch in the House, a 2002 essay collection on female domestic rage. But I declined, because in my house I felt I was already too bitchy. An old new mother (I had my first of two babies at thirty-eight), I was then battling my musician husband — both of us as grim as Survivor finalists yanking on the last scrawny chicken leg — over the matter of time, ever shrinking time. How to steal yet more time to type away madly into the night about how angry I was that I never had enough time?

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