Patricia Hampl
Patricia Hampl’s books include A Romantic Education (W. W. Norton), Virgin Time: In Search of the Contemplative Life (Ballantine) and an essay collection, I Could Tell You Stories (W. W. Norton). Her poems and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, the Paris Review and a number of literary magazines. She lives in St Paul, Minnesota.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Pilgrim
Patricia Hampl
‘Real travel wants to be dangerous, wants to smoke out the truth of the Other—providing of course you get out alive.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 4
The Beauty Disease
Patricia Hampl
‘Beauty, for my grandmother and my aunts, was divided like a territory into estates, each part governed by a different seignior.’