Why ‘Grieve’ Is the Word of the Year

Grief never ends because love never ends

Alexander Chee
Words That Matter

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Illustration: Shira Inbar

TThe last few years, I’ve become a commuter, though I suppose I always was in some attenuated way. My current commute ranges widely. Sometimes, it is just the 25 minutes it takes me to drive from my apartment in Vermont to my classroom in New Hampshire and back again. As my husband still works in New York, sometimes it is the five…

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Alexander Chee
Words That Matter

Author of the novels THE QUEEN OF THE NIGHT and EDINBURGH, and the essay collection HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL.