tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794800969370797136.post7444323316801804764..comments2023-10-17T03:49:59.287-07:00Comments on Making Modern Love: Monday Morning Quarterbacking VIEllen Neubornehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10822926280183826287noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794800969370797136.post-50688940278802937242009-08-13T07:13:19.681-07:002009-08-13T07:13:19.681-07:00Hello Ellen, Your blog is now an important part of...Hello Ellen, Your blog is now an important part of my ritual reading! Pretty exciting to see Kerry's essay in Modern Love. Congratulations to her. You are right. Kerry is a talented writer and certainly has a story to tell. <br /><br />The conflicts in the essay between the birth mother and the daughter, between the narrator's longing for a connection with her birth mother and her agonized respect for her birth mother's privacy, are very compelling. Here, not in the technology narrative, is where I think the universal lies. In the unfolding of the age-old emotions of love, anger, and despair, that Herlihy conveys so movingly, the reader connects with what Vivian Gornick would call the "story." The problems and opportunities the Internet presents--that narrative is Gornick's "situation." Without the deeper story, it would be little more than an amusing anecdote.Mary Websternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8794800969370797136.post-19767349646915212492009-08-11T12:46:19.303-07:002009-08-11T12:46:19.303-07:00Ms. Neuborne, you are a master of spotting the the...Ms. Neuborne, you are a master of spotting the theory -- anywhere -- and applying it to your own work. These are great insights, helpful to any writer dealing with rejection. I mean, not that any of us are. Necessarily. I'm just saying.Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08219322496309432671noreply@blogger.com