FUNNY WOMEN: How to Write the Perfect Fantasy Novel
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...moreTaffy Brodesser-Akner discusses her debut novel, FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE.
...moreSarah Fawn Montgomery discusses her debut memoir, QUITE MAD.
...moreAmber Tamblyn discusses her new book, Any Man, cultural myths, obsessions, and crime.
...morePorochista Khakpour discusses her new memoir, Sick, the difficulty of receiving good medical care, and the blessing of online community.
...moreThe systems created for men by men are not sufficient in caring for women. Different bodies and chemical makeups, of course, require different treatments.
...moreWriter and academic Lauren Elkin discusses her latest book Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London, the freedoms and constraints of urban space for women, and the power of first person.
...moreIben Mondrup and Kerri Pierce discuss the translation of Justine, Mondrup’s 2012 Danish novel about a young artist in Denmark.
...moreErasing women writers like Woolson carries immense implications. It creates an environment ripe for the continued marginalization and silencing of women’s voices today.
...moreShe was a physical, as opposed to a media, reality to me—someone with a voice to be addressed rather than a flattened image.
...moreThe process of selling writing can do funny things to people, like the male authors writing under female pseudonyms. Catherine Nichols went the other way, taking on a male persona to sell her novel: I sent the six queries I had planned to send that day. Within 24 hours George had five responses—three manuscript requests […]
...moreI wish it had been: Amy was a brilliant and tortured artist. Lets explore her brilliance. Let’s watch her perform.
...moreIndependent Irish publisher Tramp Press requests that writers submitting manuscripts list their influences. Co-founder Sarah Davis-Goff had a suspicion that she was only seeing male names among the influencers, so she tallied up the influences of 100 submitters. Only 33 percent of the listed influences were women writers. Davis-Groff says: If a writer lists two influences […]
...moreWhen I think about relationships that I idolize from literature, they are almost all friendships based on loyalty and adventure.
...moreThere’s been a couple articles as of late suggesting we change the way we deal with social inequity—by pointedly not participating in its fulfillment. Instead of setting our sights on the people actively promoting the problem, why don’t we all participate in correcting the imbalance? Because doesn’t it affect everyone, regardless of whether they are […]
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