Dani Shapiro

A Writing Career Becomes Harder To Scale

Authors used to expect to struggle as they gained experience. But now it is sell — or else.

February 7, 2010

Frame by Frame

Growing up, Dani Shapiro always felt caught in her mother’s viewfinder-until she found the strength to break free.

June 2007

There is No Me Without You

Dani Shapiro spared no effort or expense in her quest to find the perfect egg donor-one with her intellect, her looks, even her feelings. But then they met, and she realized that even the finest reproductions still aren’t  the real thing

February 2007

The Secret Wife

In 1953, nine years before I was born, my father fell in love with a young woman named Dorothy Gribetz. She was a beautiful Orthodox Jewish girl who was, at twenty-seven, startlingly old to still be single in the moneyed religious urban world of my father . . .

August 1998

The Six Poisons

Emma is on her third chaturanga dandasana of the morning, hovering in a push up position an inch off the floor, when Guruji and Shareth enter the shala. It must be about five-thirty judging from the…

January 2006

Mommie Dearest

My mother’s rage against my father’s family was a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Oh, she was angry at other people too…

January 2006