Sarah Menkedick
@sarahmenkedick
Author, Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America, @PantheonBooks 2020. Homing Instincts, @PantheonBooks 2017.
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I wrote about “kid culture” in the US (the museums! The story times! The events!), how family life is shut off from the rest of cultural life, and the long US history of obsessing about children’s development and play, for Aeon Magazine: aeon.co/amp/essays/why…
From Sarah Menkedick, author of ORDINARY INSANITY 👇
I love Heather Lanier's writing so much, and this piece in The Atlantic was just what I needed to weep (in a good way) on a Saturday night. (P.S. preorder her phenomenal forthcoming book, RAISING A RARE GIRL) theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Book recommendations from my brilliant editor Pantheon Books!
Wrote about witnessing real play in a remote village in rural Mexico, in the region where my husband grew up, and how rare this has become in the U.S. Lenore Skenazy termsofendearment.substack.com/p/play-is-life