![]() ![]() Her book The Eros of Parenthood, which appeared in 2001, grew out of a New Yorker essay, and is a brave exploration of a taboo topic. In the mid-'90s, she published five essays in The New Yorker. ![]() Oxenhandler, a Glen Ellen writer who teaches creative writing at Sonoma State University, made her reputation as a writer of nonfiction. Here was a book that, despite its practical concerns, showcased a supple mind grounded in philosophy and introspection-the kind of thing I'm used to finding in the best literary fiction. Now, as a novelist, I've been guilty of regarding the memoir as a second-class literary form, or believing, as one of my novelist friends claims, that instead of being called "creative nonfiction" it should be dubbed "noncreative fiction."īut recently, after reading Noelle Oxenhandler's The Wishing Year: An Experiment in Desire, I told myself to hush up. What could be more pure? It was also what I happened to write. I grew up with the sense that a clear hierarchy existed among the literary genres. ![]()
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