Fresh Take: Nicole Graev Lipson

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Parenting, Kids & Family, Comedy

4.6 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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How can women grapple with society's unattainable standards for beauty, femininity, and motherhood? Nicole Graev Lipson, author of the new book MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS, discusses how she has started to divorce herself from these ideas and get more comfortable with uncertainty. Nicole Graev Lipson's essays have appeared in The Best American Essays 2024, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Gettysburg Review, River Teeth, Fourth Genre, The Boston Globe, and more. Nicole, Amy, and Margaret discuss: The role that mothers are expected to play How society treats aging women as invisible How Nicole learned to sit with her own uncertainty about parenting Here's where you can find Nicole: nicolegraevlipson.com @nglipson on IG and @NicoleGLipson on X Buy MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: https://bookshop.org/a/12099/9781797228563 We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ What Fresh Hell is co-hosted by Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson. mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:18.9	sleep tonight. Hello of one and welcome to Fresh Take from What Fresh Hell
1:25.2	laughing in the face of Motherhood. This is Margaret.
1:32.8	And this is Amy. Today we're talking to Nicole Grave Lipson. She is the author of the memoir and essays we'll be talking about today, Mothers and Other fictional characters. This book features
1:37.8	essays that have also appeared in The Best American Essays 2024, The Sun, Virginia Quarterly
1:43.9	Review, the Gettysburg Review, the Boston Globe,
1:47.0	and more. Nicole was born and raised in New York City and now lives outside of Boston with her
1:52.7	spouse and her three children. Welcome, Nicole. Thank you so much for having me, Amy and Margaret.
1:57.2	I'm so happy to be here. So let's start with the title of this book, Mothers and
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