Elizabeth Bastos has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, and writes at her blog 19th-Century Lady Naturalist. Follow her on Twitter: @elizabethbastos
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Summer reading should include some poetry, is what I tell myself, as a kind of a challenge, but it should ...
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I’m late to the party of Alison Bechdel, of the long running strip Dykes To Watch Out For and to ...
I am not a pray-er. I’m not a high church bells-and-smells Episcopalian, but I was raised that way. I was ...
This is the time of year when we celebrate our mothers with brunches, and bunches of pansies. So call your ...
People of New England and Owings Mills where Elizabeth Bastos bidest, which is not technically in New England, but under ...