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In paperback at last: Rivka Galchen’s beloved baby bible - slyly hilarious, surprising, and absolutely essential reading for anyone who has ever had, held, or been a baby In this enchanting miscellany, Rivka Galchen notes that literature has more dogs than babies (and also more abortions), that the tally of children for many great women writers - Jane Bowles, Elizabeth Bishop, Virginia Woolf, Janet Frame, Willa Cather, Patricia Highsmith, Iris Murdoch, Djuna Barnes, Mavis Gallant - is zero, that orange is the new baby pink, that The Tale of Genji has no plot but plenty of drama about paternity, that babies exude intoxicating black magic, and that a baby is a goldmine.Little Labors is a slanted, enchanted literary miscellany. Varying in length from just a sentence or paragraph to a several-page story or essay, Galchen's puzzle pieces assemble into a shining, unpredictable, mordant picture of the ordinary-extraordinary nature of babies and literature. Anecdotal or analytic, each part opens up an odd and tender world of wonder.

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Author

Rivka Galchen

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811225588

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Biography

Rating

4.12 / 5 (388 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14