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b'Sarah Menkedick is a freelance writer and the founder of Vela. Her upcoming book is Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm.\\n\\n \\u201cI\\u2019d been rejected a ton of times\\u2014I had that 400-page thing that never became a book. So there were plenty of epic rejections that felt catastrophic. And I\\u2019d sort of arrived at this point where I was like: I\\u2019m living in my parents\' cabin, and I\\u2019m pregnant, so whatever. Fuck it. I\\u2019m gonna write whatever I want to write.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp and Blue Apron for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n@sarahmenkedick\\nsarahmenkedick.com\\nMenkedick on Longform\\n[00:15] The Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh\\n[01:00] Aaron and the Donut Dude\\n[01:15] Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm (Pantheon \\u2022 2017)\\n[01:15] Vela\\n[02:15] "Why don\\u2019t people take writing about motherhood seriously? Because women do it" (Los Angeles Times \\u2022 Apr 2017)\\n[07:45] "A Wilderness of Waiting" (Vela \\u2022 Feb 2015)\\n[09:15] "Good Pilgrims" (Harper\\u2019s \\u2022 Jul 2014)\\n[17:30] "Living on the Hyphen" (Oxford American \\u2022 Oct 2014)\\n[19:30] "Sarah Menkedick\\u2019s Four Books on Early Motherhood" (Vela \\u2022 Aug 2015)\\n[22:30] "Written by Women" (Vela \\u2022 Sep 2011)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'