The Middle Stories, Ticknor and Women In Clothes

Women in Clothes is a book unlike any other. It is essentially a conversation among hundreds of women of all nationalities—famous, anonymous, religious, secular, married, single, young, old—on the subject of clothing, & how the garments we put on every day define and shape our lives.

Ticknor: On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, a successful man who is now one of the leading intellectual lights of their generation. With a hastily baked pie in his hands, & a lifetime of guilt & insecurity weighing upon his soul, he sets out for the Prescotts' dinner party--a party at which he'd just as soon never arrive. Distantly inspired by the real-life friendship between the great historian William Hickling Prescott & his biographer, Ticknor is a witty, fantastical study of resentment; & a biting history of a one-sided friendship.