Stealing Time

Ye Olde Mother-Writer 24 Hours in a Day Conundrum

“How do you balance work and motherhood?” It’s a question I imagine a lot of writer-moms have come to dread.

There’s a great running joke about it in Rebecca Makkai’s I Have Some Questions For You, in which the protagonist, away from home teaching a course, is repeatedly asked where her children are—she replies alternately with the truth (with their fat…