The world lost a much-loved writer this week when Amy Krouse Rosenthal passed away on Monday, March 13th at the age of 51. I never met her, but through her work, I felt like I knew her. Countless readers have likely thought the same thing. Her piece in the New York Times Modern Love section on March 5th went viral, touching millions of readers who were perhaps discovering Rosenthal for the first time. I recommend everything she’s written for children (the Little Pea series is especially clever), and I’m a huge fan of her two memoirs for adults, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life and Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
You can read my full review of Textbook at Great New Books this week.
POSTS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED:
- My first essay at The Sunlight Press, “A Writer’s Frenzied Attempt to Capture Ideas”
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- How to Read More in 2017
- The most recent friendship advice questions I’ve answered at The HerStories Project.
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Nina Badzin hosts the podcast Dear Nina: Conversations About Friendship. She's been writing about friendship since 2014, co-leads the writing groups at ModernWell in Minneapolis, and reviews 30+ books a year on her website.
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I LOVE her. Love her. She was such a quiet yet moving force in the world for good and love and beauty and talent and connection. Thank you for the moment to appreciate her.