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Kelly McMasters

Kelly McMasters  is an essayist and former bookshop owner. She is the author of The Ghosts in the Hills: A Memoir-in-Essays and co-editor of Wanting: Women Writing About Desire, both forthcoming. She teaches at Hofstra University and lives in New York.

Monotony Interrupted

Monotony Interrupted

When a snow day is canceled by the pandemic, it’s childhood that’s at stake

by Kelly McMasters | Monday, March 22, 2021
The Ghosts in the Hills

The Ghosts in the Hills

“One person’s secluded paradise is another person’s isolated nightmare.”

by Kelly McMasters | Monday, March 04, 2019
Lessons of a Starry Night

Lessons of a Starry Night

A Rachel Carson essay teaches a new mother how to imbue her growing child with an awe for nature

by Kelly McMasters | Friday, March 01, 2013

THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

2nd Look

The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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