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Today, Laura Cooper stops in at Bacon to dish on a troubled relationship – and her journey to happily ever after. From Laura: I’ve spent the year estranged from an old and dear friend. I’ve tried everything you’re supposed to…
Is female friendship really so complicated? Laura Cooper, lately featured at Lithub, returns to Bacon today with her latest thought-provoking piece on the myths that surround us in life and literature. From Laura: There’s been a run on major literary fiction…
As the days grow short and mornings chill and those last knockout roses cling sadly to summer, it seems the time to share this unsettling little poem by T.S. Eliot. Song When we came home across the hill No…
You can always count on Laura Cooper to elevate the Bacon conversation! Today, she thinks about the South, our “Garden and Gun moment” in national culture – and Marcel Proust. From Laura: Last week, Nashville hosted Bonnaroo for book lovers (otherwise known…
Regular Bacon contributor Laura Cooper has expectations in check for the summer. “I definitely think summer ranks right up there with New Year’s Eve on the expectation-vs-experience, sine-cosine graph,” she observes. That being said, she’s “eager to enjoy the day-to-dayness”…
Arya’s got nothing on Regular Bacon Contributor Laura Cooper. They both know how to place the dagger. From Laura: When I was in junior high, I had a girl-crush on a classmate named Ann. I was over-tall and scratchy, in…
Today, regular Bacon Contributor Laura Cooper loves on the “Neapolitan novels” by Elena Ferrante and explains why she’s becoming a fangirl! The New York Times recently named the fourth novel in the series, The Story of the Lost Child, one of its…
Today, friend of Bacon Laura Cooper takes on on a book that’s received a tremendous amount of attention lately, A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara. She’s not as enchanted as some, and I can see why. From Laura: Who doesn’t love book prizes?…