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A new collection of essays, some appearing here for the first time, reveals the Harlem Renaissance author’s intellectual breadth.
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Conversations with Friends will follow Rooney’s Normal People that will air in April...
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On this week’s show, we talk to graphic novelist Isabel Greenberg about her comic Glass Town and the 2020 longlist for the International Booker prize...
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If stereotypes are getting you down, turn to these books featuring realistic, complex, feminist black women
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Right now, we could all use a little more women in our lives. Here are some essay collections by women to help you get started.
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A lost interview (1995) with award-winning Sy Fy writer Octavia Butler and filmmaker Julie Dash at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and…
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When the punishments for female sexual assertion inevitably introduce themselves, Edith Wharton succeeds in creating a polemic for female sexual rights.
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Before he became the best-selling author of the Inspector Rebus novels, Ian Rankin spent three years researching a PhD on one of the Scotland's other great novelists, Dame Muriel Spark.
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For the English writer, literature and feminism had the power to upend the fictions that regulate our world
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She is the rare novelist to become a public intellectual — as well as a defining voice on race and gender for the digital age.
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“Riv had a woman in Parchman; she shines golden in the dark blanket of memory that surrounds me when I sleep.”
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Jesmyn Ward received her MFA from the University of Michigan and was a recipient of a Stegner Fellowship, a John and Renee Grisham Writers Residency, and the Strauss Living Prize. She is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University and author of the novels Where the Line Bleeds and Salvage the Bones, which won the 2011 National Book Award. She is also the author of the memoir Men We Reaped, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and the Media for a Just Society Award. She lives in Mississippi.
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’s generous documentary is a fitting tribute to the late, great author...
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When I was a child, just before my father left us, he gave me a large doll. She had rather an ugly face and stiff hair you couldn't brush, but I loved her. I held her in my arms all night and rubbed her plain face with cold cream. One hand was burnt away, black and brown and horrible. Sometimes I thought my mother had
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The following is from Barbara Comyns’s novel, 'The Juniper Tree'. Bella Winter works to remove herself from her cruel mother and harsh childhood, only to later struggle as a single mother without home or job. Barbara Comyns was an English novelist and artist. Her previous works include 'Sisters by a River', 'The Vet's Daughter', and 'Our Spoons Came from Woolworth's'.
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James Wood writes that, in her new novel, the Scottish novelist is both intensely political and deliciously playful.
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Though Her Body and Other Parties centers on women’s lives, at the margins lurks the ultimate source of the horrors that haunt them: men.
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Darryl Pinckney’s generous selection celebrates pitch-perfect prose and prescient opinions from a golden age in literary criticism
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For those interested in buying this collection, please note that "collected" does not mean "complete" - far from it. The same publisher for this, NYRB, publishes a separate volume of Hardwick's (also brilliant, as is all of her work), called 'Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature' from which there is absolutely nothing whatsoever republished in this Collected Essays. "Collected" is, I think, deliberately deceiving of NYRB to would-be book buyers. It should really be called 'Selected Essays'.
Meanwhile, I highly recommend buying 'Seduction' - it's a supremely accomplished series of essay-deep reflections on great women writers.
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Mary Gaitskill is the author of the novel Veronica, a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award and named one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of 2005. She is also the author of a short-story collection and the acclaimed novels Because They Wanted To and Two Girls, Fat and Thin.
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Someday we’ll have a 46th president, but until then, here are 46 other things to look forward to
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Sandra Cisneros’ author biography forever changed how I think about myself
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These novels where explore women pioneering new ground — from the social order to family dynamics
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Margaret Drabble: Mary McCarthy smiled gnomically and said something to the effect that she wished she had written more and read less.
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Thirty years later, the book still has the capacity to cut to the heart of the pain and pride of the black experience in America.
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Toni Morrison (born Chloe Ardelia Wofford;[1] February 18, 1931) is an American novelist, editor, teacher, and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award in 1988 for Beloved.
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