How to Write Through Your Divorce

Every product on this page was chosen by a Harper’s BAZAAR editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. This article is part of Harper’s Bazaar ’s Great Motivators package, highlighting the essential voices that are keeping us inspired in 2024. This year, American women’s choices about how and if they will partner and raise a family became a matter of public policy. “Childless cat lady” started as a snide insult from a conservative man and became a proud signifier, the phrase emblazoned across a thousand T-shirts and mugs. Behind all the noise, though, were the millions of women whose personal lives seem to always be up for scrutiny. Where do you go to find an alternative to the squabble, to find descriptions of life much closer to how most women live it? One answer is the work of writers like Hayley Mlotek, Maggie Smith, and Leslie Jamison. All three of these women have written books that touch on divorce, but each catalogs the loss and change that come from big life events in her own distinct way. In the forthcoming No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce , Mlotek does the delicate work of tracing a personal and cultural history of divorce, from the viewpoint of a woman who entered matrimony with her eyes wide open. Smith’s unflinching 2023 memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful gives voice to the frustration, humor, and sadness of uncoupling. And Jamison’s Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story , published this year, details the dissolution of a marriage between two artists, while tracing the growth of herself as a woman and a mother. Here, these authors share some of the books, films, and music that helped inspire their work. Below, a playlist of their best selections. A Playlist for Breaking Up and Making Things View full post on Iframe Hayley Mlotek, author of No Fault: A Memoir of Divorce Rebecca Storm Books The works of Barbara Ehrenreich, the Neapolitan Novels (2012–2015), by Elena Ferrante, Sleepless Nights (1979), by Elizabeth Hardwick, and The Dolphin Letters (2019), […]

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