(THE CONVERSATION) Dorothy Allison, who died on Nov. 5, 2024, published her first novel, “ Bastard Out of Carolina ,” in 1992, when she was 42 years old. She mined her own life to craft the ...
Sixty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Laporte was diagnosed with knee arthritis 15 years ago. For years, she kept the pain under control with steroid injections and physical therapy, but when she began ...