Here I was, all set to read Jennifer Niesslein‘s take on last Friday’s author appearance at WriterHouse, when suddenly things took a turn for the worst…
On Friday night, I went to see Jenny Block speak at Writer House, our brand spanking new organization here for writers. Block wrote Open, a memoir/polemic about marriage. She and her husband decided years into their own marriage that they wanted it to be an open one. Right now, Block is married and she also has a committed relationship with a girlfriend.
Which, basically, is not for me to have an opinion on. But I was kind of unsettled by her insistence that monogamy goes against our biological imperatives. This post was going to be an examination of that.
Until some biological imperatives of a different sort came up….
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Oh, I wondered how that talk went. I didn’t know it was going on until about an hour after it was over. Darn.
I wish you had come! We hope to be posting a podcast of it this week — I’ll link to it, too.