Notable Online: 5/23–5/29
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: Peggy Orenstein
Notable San Francisco: 2/12–2/18
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 1/29–2/4
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable San Francisco: 1/22-1/28
Literary events in and around the Bay Area this week!
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Notable Chicago: 1/10-1/16
Literary events in and around Chicago this week!
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Notable NYC: 1/4–1/10
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
...moreNotable San Francisco: 5/24–5/30
Wednesday 5/24: David Brazil celebrates the release of Holy Ghost, his third full-length collection. He will be in conversation with Julien Poirier, co-founder of Ugly Duckling Presse. Free, 7 p.m., City Lights Bookstore. Claire Dederer (Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses) celebrates the release of Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning, in conversation with Peggy […]
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Anna March’s Reading Mixtape #24: Pussy Riot
This column has been on hiatus since the springtime and I’m happy to be back. I’ve been reading so much—mostly books by women—this summer. While I’ve been away, I’ve been thinking about gender more than ever, if you can believe that. I’ve also been hanging out with some younger women, observing their strengths, and appreciating […]
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Over at the New York Review of Books, Zoë Heller writes about American Girls by Nancy Jo Sales and Girls and Sex by Peggy Orenstein: how each book deals with the concepts of female “hotness” and body positivity in the social media age—as well as her own critiques of books that may fall within the genre […]
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Maddie Crum discusses Peggy Orenstein’s new book, Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, about female sexuality in our hook-up culture, the problems with school sex ed., and the role of porn in rape culture: Orenstein is clear about her opinion on porn, if only through the statistics she presents. She doesn’t touch on […]
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