Letting Go is Letting In

Pruning is painful but productive—for manuscripts and closets alike

Moths had infested my clothes closet.¹ I told myself the problem wasn’t that bad. For months, I implemented half-measures: cedar discs, vinyl bags, white-girl magic. I let the dry cleaner repair tiny holes in my sweaters, as if that would be an end to it. I cursed those moths, and killed them too.

But the little buggers persisted…and the problem only grew…