Contributor
Jane Bernstein
Jane Bernstein’s most recent books include the memoirs Bereft: A Sister’s Story and Rachel in the World. She is also an essayist, a lapsed screenwriter, and a member of the Creative Writing Program at Carnegie Mellon University. Visit www.janebernstein.net to read some of her shorter work.
Recent Writing
Joe
What I Didn’t Know
The Marrying Kind
Married for twenty years, happily divorced for six, the author vowed never to wed again—except in the role of officiantIssue 59
Rachel at Work: Enclosed, a Mother’s Report
True Stories, Well Told
Desperately Seeking Subtext
It’s January in Hanoi and Santa and his reindeer are everywhere, not just in the hotel lobbies, where (I’d assumed) the artificial Christmas trees, wrapped boxes and prancing reindeer were set up for the pleasure of Westerners.Issue 44
Rachel at Work: Enclosed, a Mother’s Report
In the spring of 2002, the crocuses pushed up and the daffodils blossomed and froze, and I worried about work—not my own, which I love, but what kind of work my developmentally disabled 18-year-old daughter, Rachel, might be able to do when she is no longer in the shelter of school.Issue 20 / Rage and Reconciliation
How and Why
Issue 06
Taking Care
My Uncle Ben is 90 years old—maybe. He isn’t exactly sure anymore, and no one is left to argue that his real age is 89 or 91, or tell those in the next generation the actual date of his birthday.Issue 03
