How sharing a story of personal loss at Yaddo helped author Sloane Crosley understand that joy, like grief, is layered.
Let’s start with the lucky part. I spent last August at the legendary writers’ retreat Yaddo, a 55-room stone mansion perched on a hill in Saratoga Springs, New York. Yaddo is notorious enough in the publishing world to teeter on cliché. For starters, it’s haunted.
“I don’t think they liked it,” I confessed, moping as we ascended a darkened staircase.“What makes you say that?”“No one laughed.”“Is that how you know a reading is going well?”I nodded. It had, in fact, been my sole metric for two decades. “It’s not that it’s not so funny,” she said, “it’s that it’s so sad.”I felt a sincere sense of relief as I shut my bedroom door. I had not sapped an audience of joy; I had simply given everyone something else—perhaps something at least a few of them needed.
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