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It is said that certain amiable features are selected for domestication. Anne has all of them: button nose, wide eyes, round face. The amiability of her face–her appealing cuteness–probably helped get ...

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In Anne Roiphe's memoir of hard drinking and hard loving in the 1950s, the writer recalls the "The bottomless tumblers; the never-ashed... Like a dog who circles again and again around the same spot ...

Your new book seems less controversial than your earlier work. Was that intentional? Even though this is one of my less controversial books, hopefully—and I’m kind of relieved not to have a lot of ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Anne Roiphe is an Author with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1996 Speech as a Columnist. The year with the highest average number of views ...

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Anne Roiphe was so dependent on her husband she literally didn't know how to open the front door without him. In her memoir of widowhood, she also remembers how he told her, years before he died, that ...

Now more than ever, it seems as if an ironic hand is operating New York City. From post-Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist threats to the day-to-day absurdity that it takes to live on the island of Manhattan, ...

In Art and Madness, her memoir of the literary 1950s, writer Anne Roiphe describes going into labor by herself in a snowdrift, unable to wake her... Anne Roiphe's 1950s Feminism In 'Art And Madness' ...

Toward the end of her ego-shredding new memoir, Art and Madness, Anne Roiphe tells the jaw-dropping story of the day her first child was born. It was 1960, and a snowstorm was raging in New York City.