{"id":2720,"date":"2019-06-25T11:26:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T15:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/?p=2720"},"modified":"2019-06-25T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T17:58:30","slug":"mimi-lipson-publishes-essay-in-massachusetts-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2019\/06\/25\/mimi-lipson-publishes-essay-in-massachusetts-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimi Lipson publishes essay in Massachusetts Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/2019\/06\/25\/mimi-lipson-publishes-essay-in-massachusetts-review\/mimi-headshot-ladder\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/crwr\/files\/2019\/06\/Mimi-headshot-ladder-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mimi headshot ladder\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/06\/Mimi-headshot-ladder-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/06\/Mimi-headshot-ladder-768x1050.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/06\/Mimi-headshot-ladder-749x1024.jpg 749w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/files\/2019\/06\/Mimi-headshot-ladder.jpg 805w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 219px) 100vw, 219px\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;re really pleased to share this unflinchingly honest and moving essay by Mimi Lipson.\u00a0 The essay, about Mimi&#8217;s brother, is called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/massreview.org\/sites\/default\/files\/05_60.2Lipson.pdf\">&#8220;Tornado&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0and was published recently in the\u00a0<em>Massachusetts Review.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>About writing the essay, Mimi says:<\/p>\n<p><em>I usually avoid thinking about writing in terms of catharsis, but working on this really did help me to resolve some things. It has a lot of parts to it, and I kept thinking I needed to take one thing or another out, but in the end it didn&#8217;t work without everything&#8211;all the complications. What&#8217;s really surprised me is how satisfying it&#8217;s been to share the piece with Nate&#8217;s old friends. I don&#8217;t think anything I&#8217;ve accomplished in terms of publishing my work has meant more to me than the gratitude some of them have expressed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thank you for sharing this with us, Mimi, and hearty congrats.<\/p>\n<p>Mimi Lipson received her MFA from BU in 2013. She&#8217;s published a book of stories called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/en\/book\/show\/18528348-the-cloud-of-unknowing\"><em>The Cloud of Unknowing<\/em><\/a> (Yeti), and her fiction has appeared in <em>BOMB, Harvard Review, Witness,<\/em> and elsewhere. She has enjoyed residency fellowships at McDowell, Yaddo, Ucross, VCCA, and the Edward Albee Foundation. Mimi lives in New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re really pleased to share this unflinchingly honest and moving essay by Mimi Lipson.\u00a0 The essay, about Mimi&#8217;s brother, is called\u00a0&#8220;Tornado&#8221;\u00a0and was published recently in the\u00a0Massachusetts Review. About writing the essay, Mimi says: I usually avoid thinking about writing in terms of catharsis, but working on this really did help me to resolve some things. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/crwr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}