Work by Deirdre Coman Donahue

  1. Abigail Thomas’s “A Three Dog Life”

    Posted in Gossip!, September 2009

    What is art, any­way, except not pound­ing on walls.”

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  2. The Moth Podcast

    Posted in Gossip!, September 2009

    Because one day I’d like to throw my pages away and stand before you bare. [ed. note: The Moth is now also avail­able as a Jay Allison-produced weekly radio broad­cast. Bug your local pub­lic radio sta­tion pro­gram direc­tor to get on board with The Moth Radio Hour. And then bug ours, too.]

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  3. Summer Figs

    Posted in Gossip!, September 2009

    Slice in half. Slather on some goat cheese. Sprinkle on some toasted almond slices. Slide on some honey and bal­samic vine­gar. Sublime.

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  4. Carnations

    Posted in Nonfiction, September 2009

    Sometimes I play with the boy next door. His fam­ily is Japanese and they raise car­na­tions. They must have a home but I don’t remem­ber it. Only the greenhouses—rows and rows of green­houses fill the entire lot next door. I play with the boy amongst all these sweet smelling flow­ers, rac­ing up and down the [...]

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