FIRST LOVE: Essays on Friendship. By Lilly Dancyger. Dial Press. 224 pages. $28. Who means more to you — your friends or your lovers? In a vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays, Lilly ...

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This essay presents an unpublished meditation on friendship by Henry Percy (1564–1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland. In contrast to early modern writers who celebrated an idealized vision of perfect ...

In these bruising essays, memoirist Dancyger (Negative Space) contemplates female friendships “predicated on deep love and knowing,” yet frequently marked by tragedy. Probing grief and self-discovery, ...

I would love to meet Laura Lippman’s friend Nancy. Apparently, she is Lippman’s closest friend who has very specific friendship limits — “Nancy simply could not help me commit a crime … [she] won’t ...

Who means more to you — your friends or your lovers? In a vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays, Lilly Dancyger explores the powerful role that female friendships played in her chaotic ...

Who means more to you -- your friends or your lovers? In a vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays, Lilly Dancyger explores the powerful role that female friendships played in her chaotic ...