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Madeleine and Jane
Madeleine and Jane, both in their early twenties, arrive separately in Manhattan in January 1968. Jane is an aspiring writer seeking adventure, Madeleine, a fragile young woman fleeing an erotic nightmare. They meet by chance and throw in as roommates, first in an East Village tenement and later, through a stroke of dubious luck, in the luxurious uptown apartment of a mysteriously absent woman. Together and apart, Madeleine and Jane encounter the terrors and excitements-muggings, drugs, sexual freedom and experimentation-that burgeoned in the New York of that era.
"On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom."
- Michel De Montaigne
Books and Essays
About Emily
Essayist Emily Fox Gordon is the author of four books, Mockingbird Years: A Life in and Out of Therapy (a New York Times Notable Book) Are You Happy? A Childhood Remembered (a New York Times Editor's Choice), It Will Come To Me (a novel) and Book of Days: Personal Essays (a New York Times Editor's Choice). Her essays appear in Ploughshares, The New York Times, Boulevard, Salmagundi, The American Scholar and Southwest Review. Gordon has earned two Pushcart Prizes. Her work appears in Best American Essays 2014 and several editions of Anchor Essay Annual. Gordon was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2014. More recently, she received a Sidney Award from David Brooks and one of her essays was included in The Contemporary American Essay, edited by Phillip Lopate. She has taught classes on personal essays at such institutions as Columbia, Rutgers, Rice University, the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, the New School, and the University of Wyoming. For many years she has led workshops at Houston’s INPRINT program.