This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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This Week in Essays
A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!
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Mothers and Marginalization: Cherise Wolas’s The Resurrection of Joan Ashby
Writing, art, and creation are elevated and pure, the book seems to say, spiritual acts separated from the dross of everyday life.
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Lady Killers and Our Obsession with Murder: Talking with Tori Telfer
Tori Telfer discusses her first book Lady Killers and the fragile “social saran wrap” that keeps us all from killing each other.
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For the Passages North blog, Jennifer Maritza McCauley discovers a connection to Rosa Parks and goes to Alabama in search of answers. Can you go home again to a place you’ve never been? Enuma Okoro writes for Aeon on moving to Nigeria to escape America’s problems.
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Men will not protect you anymore. At Jezebel, Madeleine Davies advises that “now is a time for fury and force.” Mark Binelli looks into life on the border town of Nogales for Guernica. Here at The Rumpus, Matthew Clair writes about how we must do more than simply gaze upon suffering; actions speak louder than images.
...moreThis Week in Trumplandia
Welcome to This Week in Trumplandia. Check in with us every Thursday for a weekly roundup of the most pertinent and relevant content on our country, which is currently spiraling down a crappy toilet drain. You owe it to yourself, your communities, and your humanity to contribute whatever you can, even if it is just […]
...moreTales from the Comment Crypt
Halloween comes early with Jezebel’s annual Spooky Story Contest, where readers leave their terrifying tales in the comments (they can also be emailed to [email protected]). Other than that, the rules are are as follows: 1) The story must be true, and 2) The story must be scary. Fans of Creepypasta, Channel Zero, and all manner […]
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The Rumpus Interview with Brit Bennett
Brit Bennett discusses her debut novel The Mothers, investigating “what-if” moments, and navigating racism in white spaces.
...moreVelva Darling: Girl Philosopher
For Pictorial at Jezebel, Andrew Heisel presents a feature on Velva Darling, the “modern girl philosopher,” whose writing career sparked in the late 1920s and early 30s before she completely disappeared from the public eye.
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The Read Along: Kelsey Miller
The Read Along is a new column that offers a glimpse into the reading habits of real-life writers. Our first installment features Kelsey Miller, author of the memoir Big Girl and columnist at Refinery29.
...moreCharlotte Bronte’s Letters
Laura June writes for Pictorial at Jezebel on the epistolary life of Charlotte Bronte. June covers Bronte’s later years, showing that the significant portion of what we know about Charlotte Bronte comes from her correspondence with her best friend, Ellen Nussey, and her former employer/love of her life, Constantin Héger.
...moreMaking Space
Books by white dudes are so inescapable that some readers have taken to (temporarily) swearing off their work. Jezebel’s Jia Tolentino considers whether those efforts are misguided: We know that white male writers take up too much literary attention; the solution is not necessarily jamming everyone else into a bottle of social justice cough syrup, standing […]
...moreFurthering Alexander Hamilton’s Hip-Hop Legacy
For The Muse at Jezebel, Julianne Escobedo Shepherd dives deep into Ron Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton to find even more connections between the words of “the ten-dollar Founding Father without a father” and the literature of hip-hop.
...moreOn Ladies’ Creative Pursuits
There are certain stereotypes about women’s creativity prior to the twentieth century, and generally they revolve around appropriately domestic novels, amateur watercolors, needlework, and “folk art.” But there’ve always been women who found ways around those rules. For Pictorial at Jezebel, Kelly Faircloth writes on an exhibit at the New York Public Library featuring the […]
...moreLife Cycle of an Eyebrow Hair
Jezebel has complied pictures of the questions the staff at the New York Public Library had to answer in the pre-Google days.
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The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Brodawg Branding
Behold: the “Cool Girl” of commercials.
...moreBreaking Up (With Friends) Is Hard to Do
Laura Turner writes about friendships and loss and the myths of ourselves: What I had found was that it took the instant to make me realize how much life had changed. M and I hadn’t been friends for years, but I had lived every day of those years thinking that reconciliation might be just around […]
...moreEveryday You’re Hustlin’
If you’re not making enough money, or if you’re stuck in a dead-end job that you’re overqualified for, it’s because you just aren’t hustling hard enough. It most certainly is not because there aren’t enough jobs, or the minimum wage isn’t high enough, or because women aren’t guaranteed equal pay under the law. Even if […]
...moreRomance Writers Mean Business
For Pictorial at Jezebel, Kelly Faircloth explores the public imagination’s view of the romance writer, focusing on the genre’s boom in the 1980s and the modern-day romance writer with her eye on the business of writing. [The Romance Writers of America’s annual conference] reminded me of something like Mary Kay, or Avon—an empire built on […]
...moreBending Gender to Make a Sale
The 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 […]
...moreHow to Build a Joan of Arc
For Pictorial at Jezebel, Kelly Faircloth interviews Helen Castor, the author of Joan of Arc: A History, a book that attempts to recreate the context into which Joan of Arc emerged in history: What was different about what Joan was saying was that she was saying that God was commanding her not only to convey […]
...moreBig, Ugly Truth
Conservative pundits have been attacking Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia student who spent the last year carrying around her mattress in protest of how the university handled the discipline hearing after she was raped, labeling her a liar. Most of these criticisms seem to forget that three other women also filed complaints against her attacker, Paul […]
...moreHow to Harlequin
Over at Jezebel, Kelly Faircloth shares a fantastic long form piece on the rise of the Harlequin romance novel, and how the brand became synonymous with a wildly lucrative if critically dismissed genre. From the original formula for woman-centered, alpha-male page turners to Harlequin’s relentless advertising tactics to the question of exactly how much sex […]
...moreFemale Friendships in Fiction
Jezebel is running a series on female friendships in fiction, starting with a look at the relationship between Daria Morgendorffer and Jane Lane.
...moreBut What About Me?
There’s a certain heuristic online these days that stems from a somewhat impossible idea that every narrated experience should contain, account for, and address every other one out there. There is no breed of reaction that deadens me more, for example, than, ‘Great, but I wish this had been written from my perspective.’ And social […]
...moreThis Post Is Just To Say
Jezebel has collected several Twitter parodies of William Carlos Williams’s famous poem about plums and a lot of them are pretty funny
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