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Acknowledgment of grief - well, it makes feeling the grief easier, not harder.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Acknowledgment Easier Feeling Grief Harder Makes Well

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An iron lung looks like an enormous metal coffin or a 19th-century rocket ship: only its occupant's head is left outside, a tight seal around the neck.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Around Coffin Enormous Head Iron Left Like Looks Lung Metal Neck Only Outside Rocket Seal Ship Tight

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A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it's an heirloom, and it's also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Also Belongs Comic Comic Strip Curious Elders Intimate Laugh Look Made Parents Peer Read Really Strip Then Thing Things Through Were Whether Windows Wonder You Young Your

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I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Campus Office Over Place Recently Sort Territory Texas University Work

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New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky - but somehow unsurprised - to learn that his name is Mad Bottom.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Bottom Feel Find His Learn Lucky Mad Name New New Orleans Orleans Out Place Somehow Still Where You

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When I first met my husband, he was sculpting Vilnius out of clay - a sort of Vilnius, anyhow: a map of an imaginary European city based on the Lithuanian capital - to illustrate his second novel.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Anyhow Based Capital City Clay European First He His Husband Illustrate Imaginary Map Met Novel Out Second Sort

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My mother's family didn't speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn't want to worry their children about the war.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: About Born Children Europe Family Her Mother Much Parents Sort Speak Want War Were Who Worry

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The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Altar Assumption Away Brick Church Complete Holy Mary Over Painted Ruined Underneath Vivid Walls Were

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Vilnius was once known as 'The Jerusalem of Lithuania' because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the 20th century, it became a center of Yiddish-language scholarship.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Became Because Center Century First Half Houses Jerusalem Known Number Once Prayer Scholars Scholarship 20Th Century

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I'm a higgledy-piggledy person in every way. On days that I work, I work for eight hours in a row, with my internet access entirely turned off, locked in my office.

~Elizabeth Mccracken

Topics: Access Days Eight Entirely Every Hours Internet Locked Off Office Person Row Turned Way Work

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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