Lea Carpenter

Lea Carpenter is a novelist and a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School.

What We Lost In the Fire: On the Stories We Tell To Fill Life’s Empty Spaces

For Lea Carpenter, “There is a third story, the one told in the second person. This is the story you tell yourself.”

January 30, 2025 By Lea Carpenter

On Fathers and The Art of Grieving

Lea Carpenter: "There was lots of cooking and denial.
Rage came later."

June 19, 2020 By Lea Carpenter

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