Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays (Stielstra Megan
Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays (Stielstra Megan Once I Was Cool contrasts past aspirations with the mess and magic of the present. As an adult, she lives in a turreted condo across the street, with…
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Once I Was Cool: Personal Essays (Stielstra Megan
Once I Was Cool contrasts past aspirations with the mess and magic of the present. As an adult, she lives in a turreted condo across the street, with her husband, a child, and an onerous mortgage. In her younger days, essayist Megan Stielstra saw Jane's Addiction at the Aragon Ballroom and fantasized about living on the same block, right in the thick of music and revelry.
And it isn't what she expected, either.With conversational flourishes and on-the-mark descriptions, Stielstra's essays evoke the richness of her everyday life and the memories that are never far away. It's just the home her young, cool self imagined. She remembers learning how to shoot a gun, a cancer scare, and--in a piece that was anthologized in The Best American Essays 2013--the time she eavesdropped on another new mother using her son's baby monitor.
"I shouldn't have listened," she writes.
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