In the essay collection Studio of the Voice, master essayist Marcia Aldrich is at her finest as she invites readers along for a personal exploration of women's lives, the complicated love of mothers for daughters and of daughters for mothers, slinky blue dresses and sultry red lipstick, Hollywood beauties and the stories we tell about them, the losses and treasures of getting older, her lifelong swim, and much more, speaking to us always in a voice...