Eve LaPlante

The introduction to American Jezebel (Harper, 2004) is reprinted in Shaun O'Connell's new anthology, Boston: Voices and Visions (U. Mass., 2010). O'Connell writes, "Just as Hawthorne dug into the dark history of his ancestry, which reached back both to the original Boston settlement of the 1630s and the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s, so too did LaPlante trace family members who were rooted in the same eras.... Hawthorne took shame upon himself for the misdeeds of his Puritan ancestors, and LaPlante offers praise for her forebears who testified against Puritan repression. As her prefaces to these biographies, a kind of spiritual autobiography, show, Anne Hutchinson and Samuel Sewall were not the dark Puritans many imagined them to be. They remain living presences, even models of rectitude, into the twenty-first century."

Eve's essay "18,260 Breakfasts," from Why I’m Still Married: Women Write Their Hearts Out on Love, Loss, Sex, and Who Does the Dishes (Penguin, 2006), is reprinted in The Aims of Argument, a Rhetorics textbook edited by Timothy Crusius and Carolyn Channell (McGraw-Hill, 2008, 2010).


Eve's articles have appeared in these periodicals:

The Atlantic Monthly
"The Riddle of TLE." Nov. 1988 (medicine)

Beliefnet.com
"Out of Sight, Out of History." Jul. 2, 2004 (Anne Hutchinson essay)

The Boston Globe
"Born to Party." Nov. 2, 2008 (Ideas cover story on biopolitics)

"The Opposite of Thanksgiving." Nov. 18, 2007 (Ideas cover story on Puritan thanksgivings)

"A Heretic’s Overdue Honor." Sep. 7, 2005 (op-ed on Anne Hutchinson)

"First Steps at Speedskating." Feb. 19, 2004

"Visiting ‘The Dead’ in Dublin." Jan. 20, 2002 (travel)

"What’s in a Name?" Jan. 18, 1994

"St. John: Almost Private Isle." Jan. 27, 1991 (travel)

"Exile of a Polish Revolutionary." Apr. 7, 1984

Boston Globe Sunday Magazine
"A Wealth of Knowledge." Oct. 12, 1986 (first major-magazine profile of economist Larry Summers, who went on to run the U.S. Treasury, Harvard University, and the White House National Economic Council)

Boston Herald Sunday Magazine
"Dying Words: The Irish Language." Feb. 10, 1985 (cover story)

Boston Magazine
"Rattle & Strum." Nov. 2000 (music)

"Autumn Leavings: Sweet Pickings." Oct. 2000 (travel)

"Pay Dirt." Sep. 2000 (profile of Maine potato farmer)

"Edible Complex." Sep. 2000 (art)

"Flour Power." Sep. 1999 (art)

"The Secret Life of Language: High School Semiotics." Nov. 1983 (education)

BrainChild
"Divorce: The Damage (Not) Done." Spring 2002 (essay/​book review)

Country Living
"Alyson’s Orchard." Sep. 2002 (travel)

"Hidden Cape Ann." Sep. 2000 (travel)

"Seeking Charlotte and Wilbur." Sep. 1999 (travel)

Gourmet
"Good Living: Dead Set in Dublin." Dec. 2002 (travel)

"Still Life With Jelly." Jan. 2002 (art)

Hartford Courant
"The University That Misogyny Built." Jan. 29, 2005 (op-ed on Anne Hutchinson) Reprinted in Anchorage Daily News, Canton (OH) Repository, South Coast (MA) Today, and West Hawaii Today

Harvard Magazine
"Illinois Jacquet: A lot of Lovin’ in Front." Sep./​Oct. 1983 (music)

History Magazine
"A Judge of Character: The Reformation of a Salem Witch Judge." Oct. 2011 (on Samuel Sewall)

Ladies’ Home Journal
"The Baby-sitter." Mar. 1998

The New York Times
"Our Lady of the Hutch." Sep. 18, 2004 (op-ed on Anne Hutchinson)

"Keeping the Landscape Hurdle-Free: Walking in Ireland." Jul. 8, 2001 (travel)

"Bread, Tea, and Prayer." Apr. 7, 1996 (travel)

Parents
"The Perfect Family Size." Jul. 1998

Working Woman
"Five Career Ruts You Can’t Afford." Nov. 1987

Yankee
"C.B. Fisk’s Monumental Creations." Dec. 1985 (music)