The Republic of Empathy
My wife wanted another baby. But I thought Philip was enough. A toddler is a lot...
"If you refuse to have another baby, that's the same as leaving me," his wife said. "This morning I smelled the top of Philip's head. That sweet baby scent is gone. Now it just smells like the top of any dumbshit's head." Sam Lipsyte on marriage, parenthood, and the search for another life.