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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/ariel-levy-human-female-animal-experience/"></div>The best way to read Ariel Levy’s memoir, The Rules Do Not Apply, is to barrel along with her at full-speed, not stopping for breath or losing momentum, until you emerge at the other end windswept, tears in your eyes from both laughing and crying, and cursing yourself for reading too quickly. It is a captivating story about the grief of losing the irreplaceable — a son, a spouse, a home — and the jarring realization that nothing can immunize us to the forces of nature, relationships, or the human body. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/interviews/ariel-levy-human-female-animal-experience/#more-4090" class="more-link">Read more</a>
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Ariel Levy and the Human Female Animal Experience

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

Ellie&nbsp;Duke is the Southwest editor at <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/">Hyperallergic</a>, and an editor at <a href="https://contravientojournal.org/">Contra Viento</a>, a journal for art and literature from rangelands. Formerly she was the managing editor of <a href="https://larbbooks.org/">LARB Books</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/">BLARB</a>&nbsp;editor at the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books. She lives in Santa Fe. Follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/elliecduke">@elliecduke</a>.

Ellie Duke

Rewriting McCullers

"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf

Memoir &amp; Essay

"As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag." — Patti Smith

Gender &amp; Sexuality

The Aboutness: An Interview with Marisa Silver

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

Fiction

The Bed Moved

We’re Just Having Fun

We Need to Talk

Wild Women

Ellie&nbsp;Duke is the Southwest editor at <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/">Hyperallergic</a>, and an editor at <a href="https://contravientojournal.org/">Contra Viento</a>, a journal for art and literature from rangelands. Formerly she was the managing editor of <a href="https://larbbooks.org/">LARB Books</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/">BLARB</a>&nbsp;editor at the&nbsp;Los Angeles Review of Books. She lives in Santa Fe. Follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/elliecduke">@elliecduke</a>.