People throughout time have grieved, have fallen in love, have fallen out of love. We are sometimes petty and sometimes heroic, and… — Monica Hesse Forever Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate fish fries in the backyard, kiddie pools in the front yard, and unfettered views of a thousand starts… — Monica Hesse Every night Copy Share Image
“Lucky has become such a relative term, when the standards to meet it involve only not being treated like a criminal in… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
“But maybe rural America isn't dying so much as it's Shucker-ing: adjusting, adapting, becoming something new, getting a new outdoor sign and… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
I hope people will never stop dressing up as Harry Potter. It feels less to me like something you wear because you… — Monica Hesse Chance Copy Share Image
Fiction writing and journalism, in my experience, are really excellent training grounds for each other. — Monica Hesse Experience Copy Share Image
Like a lot of people, I read 'The Diary of Anne Frank' again and again and again when I was growing up… — Monica Hesse Books Copy Share Image
By the end of his life, one has a far easier time picturing Hugh Hefner buying his girlfriend a comfy pair of… — Monica Hesse Buying Copy Share Image
Cooking is a weird thing. In homes, I'd wager it's still women who do more of the cooking. — Monica Hesse Cooking Copy Share Image
“Jeff Beall. Beall was a tall man with a bristling mustache and a wit as dry as sandpaper. He’d drive thirty miles… — Monica Hesse Friendship Copy Share Image
In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension - which is something you want in a really good nonfiction… — Monica Hesse Good Copy Share Image
“As economies change, as landscapes change, nostalgia is the only good America will never stop producing. We gorge on it ourselves and… — Monica Hesse Nostalgia Copy Share Image
When Holly Madison, Hef's former chief girlfriend, came out with a tell-all book about life in the Mansion, the most bizarre revelation… — Monica Hesse Book Copy Share Image
I can bend my wrist down to my forearm. I can wrench my fingers backward until they rest on my hand. A… — Monica Hesse Backward Copy Share Image
“It ended. Of course it did, it finally did, and like a lot of things, by the time it actually ended, people… — Monica Hesse Time Copy Share Image
“To talk about arson is to talk about buildings burning down. To talk about the term 'pyromania' is really to talk about… — Monica Hesse Fire Copy Share Image
“By the numbers, Accomack could look like a desolate place to live. The Opportunity Index, a nonprofit measurement of sixteen different indicators… — Monica Hesse Chesapeake bay Copy Share Image
Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often,… — Monica Hesse Humanity Copy Share Image
Long before the writer Gillian Flynn popularized the concept of the insufferable 'Cool Girl,' who doesn't exist except in men's fervent fantasies,… — Monica Hesse Cool Copy Share Image
“Here was a county that had almost burned down. Here was that county moving on. All of these fires could have happened… — Monica Hesse Abandoned buildings Copy Share Image
It's part of the American experience: We deal with mosquitoes in August, airport delays around Thanksgiving, expensive health care and the potential… — Monica Hesse Experience Copy Share Image
