How Philip Roth Taught Me To Write — And Heal
Lit Hub, November 10, 2021
My young husband and I were too square for the "Woodstock" festival the previous summer. But now, when Tim Buxton's childhood friend, Barbara Sproul, invited me to borrow the cabin she rented in the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony for which the town of Woodstock, New York was originally known, I went. "Wake Robin" was just across the valley from the spacious farmhouse leased by Philip Roth, Barbara's partner for what would come to be most of that decade, and it would be there, in sharing the quiet rhythm of their life together, that I could begin to sense the new shape of my own.