Stories — Sarah Menkedick

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Dec 8, 2022

LIberation at 30,000 Feet: On the Freedom of Early Airline Stewardesses – Lit Hub

Dec 8, 2022

Dec 8, 2022

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Nov 30, 2022

'Why Was It So Hard?': How the Pandemic Changed Our Children – the New York Times Book Review

Nov 30, 2022

Nov 30, 2022

May 15, 2020

Kid Culture – Aeon

May 15, 2020

May 15, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

How My Dad Became the Traveler I Once Was – The New York Times

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 29, 2020

Apr 10, 2020

How the coronavirus pandemic actually eased my anxiety – The Washington Post

Apr 10, 2020

Apr 10, 2020

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Apr 8, 2020

Excerpt of ORDINARY INSANITY – Guernica

Apr 8, 2020

Apr 8, 2020

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Mar 26, 2020

Postpartum Anxiety Is an Epidemic Among American Mothers. Why Does It So Often Go Undiagnosed? – Time

Mar 26, 2020

Mar 26, 2020

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Feb 5, 2020

Telling Stories in Order to Live, Longreads

Feb 5, 2020

Feb 5, 2020

Jul 1, 2019

Behind the Writing: On Interviewing

Jul 1, 2019

Jul 1, 2019

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Sep 5, 2018

A Mother's Fragmented Identity – The New York Times

Sep 5, 2018

Sep 5, 2018

Feb 3, 2018

My Husband's Lover – The New York Times

Feb 3, 2018

Feb 3, 2018

Apr 21, 2017

Why don't people take writing about motherhood seriously? Because women do it – The Los Angeles Times

Apr 21, 2017

Apr 21, 2017

Mar 9, 2017

The Making of a Mexican-American Dream – Pacific Standard

Mar 9, 2017

Mar 9, 2017

Mar 11, 2016

The migrant's tale – Aeon

Mar 11, 2016

Mar 11, 2016

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Aug 14, 2014

Living on the Hyphen – Oxford American

Aug 14, 2014

Aug 14, 2014

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Feb 11, 2020

American Dirt: A Bridge to Nowhere

Feb 11, 2020

Feb 11, 2020

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Feb 5, 2020

I love Elizabeth Gilbert, and you can too, The Outline

Feb 5, 2020

Feb 5, 2020

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Dec 16, 2019

On Quitting in the Middle of a Marathon, Gay Magazine

Dec 16, 2019

Dec 16, 2019

Jun 26, 2019

Men can't hear it, women don't say it – the everyday importance of 'no' – The Los Angeles Times

Jun 26, 2019

Jun 26, 2019

Feb 7, 2019

Behind the Writing: On Research

Feb 7, 2019

Feb 7, 2019

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Nov 27, 2018

What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics – The Guardian

Nov 27, 2018

Nov 27, 2018

Washington Post Jorge Santiago Sarah Menkedick

Nov 27, 2018

Telling our daughter why hate came to our town – The Washington Post

Nov 27, 2018

Nov 27, 2018

Dec 18, 2017

Who's Afraid Of The Personal Essay? – Buzzfeed

Dec 18, 2017

Dec 18, 2017

Aug 11, 2017

Unfiltered: How motherhood disrupted my relationship with social media – Southwest

Aug 11, 2017

Aug 11, 2017

May 19, 2017

Between Mom and Stepmom – Longreads

May 19, 2017

May 19, 2017

May 12, 2017

On Oaxaca, Early Pregnancy, and Motherlands – Lit Hub

May 12, 2017

May 12, 2017

May 10, 2017

The Blue Jay's Dance: What Louise Erdrich Taught Me About Motherhood – The Paris Review

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

Jan 10, 2013

The Rider's Prayer – Finalist, The Atavist's Digital Storymaker's Awards

Jan 10, 2013

Jan 10, 2013

Jan 10, 2013

Reunion Island: Chantilly – The Common

Jan 10, 2013

Jan 10, 2013

Oct 10, 2010

My Own Mexican Revolution – World Hum

Oct 10, 2010

Oct 10, 2010

eBooks

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Apr 11, 2017

Wild River Blues – Vintage Short Original

Apr 11, 2017

Apr 11, 2017

Sep 10, 2011

The Beaten Track – Kindle Singles

Sep 10, 2011

Sep 10, 2011

Selected work from Vela

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May 10, 2017

The Book and the Baby

May 10, 2017

May 10, 2017

Nov 30, 2016

The Playground Trap

Nov 30, 2016

Nov 30, 2016

Aug 11, 2016

Together Apart

Aug 11, 2016

Aug 11, 2016

May 31, 2016

In Defense of Motherhood as Art

May 31, 2016

May 31, 2016

Jan 27, 2016

#motherhoodthroughInstagram

Jan 27, 2016

Jan 27, 2016

Dec 16, 2015

Everyday Geography

Dec 16, 2015

Dec 16, 2015

Aug 4, 2015

Writing Like a Motherf*cker

Aug 4, 2015

Aug 4, 2015

Aug 2, 2015

Sarah Menkedick's Four Books on Early Motherhood

Aug 2, 2015

Aug 2, 2015

Feb 13, 2015

A Wilderness of Waiting

Feb 13, 2015

Feb 13, 2015

Oct 5, 2014

Love in los Tiempos del Spanglish

Oct 5, 2014

Oct 5, 2014

Jul 7, 2013

It's Not Personal

Jul 7, 2013

Jul 7, 2013

Mar 11, 2013

Homing Instincts

Mar 11, 2013

Mar 11, 2013

Sep 1, 2011

Written by Women

Sep 1, 2011

Sep 1, 2011