Carla Power
Author, Mother, London-based American, Two-Time Pulitzer Finalist
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What Dolly, Gloria, and “Dancing Girl” Give Us (opens the original)
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Making Fists with Toes: What Die Hard and Carpets Taught Me About Transience (opens the original)
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Midway through the pandemic, I started hunting. Trapped at home in Southern England by grey days, flat skies, and Covid regulations, I’d spend hours scrolling through resale sites, looking for oriental rugs. Britain’s strict lockdown made grounded teenagers of all of us, pacing, angry, and furiously hunched over our screens. Squinting at my IPad, fingers flicking manically out to enlarge an image, then enlarge it again and again, I’d try to gauge the tautness of a Bakhtiari’s knots, or the timbr
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