Status Updates From Dead and Alive

it’s so weird to read her essays and recognize the student in her. in my head she’s always been much closer to my age (I think because her character in Swing Time was so young and I knew it was semi auto-biographical I just assumed) but then I read her essay on Phillip Roth, knowing him as a reader in his old age before he passed, and realize like oh. ok. you’ve like lived many lives.