Jane Vandenburgh

April 23rd, 2014

Fall Officially Decreed Downtime

The Fall of 2014 is dedicated to the pursuit of writing time, which means the Author Jane Vandenburgh stops making public appearances, stays home and finishes the book she’s been writing for a good long time. Public activities to resume in the February of 2015 with the Yearlong Workshop at Djerassi.

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December 20th, 2013

The Industrialization of Mom

Mothers of my mom’s and Nancy Spiller’s generation expected a better future than the suburban house on the cul-de-sac where they had kids and slowly lost their minds

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September 6th, 2013

Occasional Tables for Which There Are No Occasions

First my mother-in-law arrived for a visit, then came her furniture

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August 21st, 2013

An Exchange with Robert Silvers of the NYRB

On August 11, 2013, I published an Open Letter to the New York Review of Books on Huffington Post commenting on the Table of Contents of the NYRB’s most recent issue, pictured above, essentially challenging the obvious gender disparity. (My original letter follows at the end of our exchange and is linked at the right.) My […]

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