Bomblog interviews Elissa Schappell about her collection of short stories, Blueprints for Building Better Girls. Schappell talks about the writing process, setting, and the idea of “gendered writing.”
“It’s no secret how crazy the concept of “gendered” writing makes me. What, Jane Austen has to wear a strap-on to be taken seriously? Female is a gender; it is not a genre of literature. Even that term, gendered writing, it is clinical, it sounds like something done to the writing, sexing it against its will.”
