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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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Sandra Cisneros’ author biography forever changed how I think about myself
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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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Conversational Reading. Scott Esposito's blog, since 2004.
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A reading list to celebrate this August (and beyond), the month of Women in Translation. The writer of this article, Scott Esposito, is the co-author of The End of Oulipo? (Zero Books, 2013) His writing has appeared in numerous venues, including Tin House, The Washington Post, Salon, the Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, The Point, Music & Literature, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere. He is editor in chief of The Quarterly Conversation , a senior editor to Two Lines, and a contributing editor to BOMB . In 2017 he will publish a book of creative nonfiction on film.
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August 8, 2017 4:11 PM
A reading list to celebrate this August (and beyond), the month of Women in Translation.
The writer of this article, Scott Esposito, is the co-author of The End of Oulipo? (Zero Books, 2013) His writing has appeared in numerous venues, including Tin House, The Washington Post, Salon, the Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, The Point, Music & Literature, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere. He is editor in chief of The Quarterly Conversation , a senior editor to Two Lines, and a contributing editor to BOMB . In 2017 he will publish a book of creative nonfiction on film.
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The professor of English tells us about the joy of rereading Austen and the hidden layers of complexity that emerge from the writing when one does so. She chooses the best Jane Austen books.
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June 15, 2017 7:41 AM
Patricia Meyer Spacks is Edgar F Shannon Professor of English, Emerita, at the University of Virginia. She is a leading critic of 18th century English literature and has served as president of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Modern Language Association. Her annotated edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was published in 2010 and On Rereading, a record of a year-long project of re-visiting different novels, was published in 2011.
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This is writing that would be perfectly at home in the fiction of Elizabeth Bowen, Katherine Anne Porter, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Taylor, and echoes the steely intelligence and driest of wit of the inimitable Ivy Compton-Burnett.
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A great new woman writer. Highly recommended.
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May 16, 2017 12:57 PM
The debut of an astonishingly good writer. Highly recommended.
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Ms. Le Guin brought literary elegance and a feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy tales, drawing millions of readers around the world.
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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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For the English writer, literature and feminism had the power to upend the fictions that regulate our world
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Roxane Gay is a writer of extreme empathy. Her fiction and essays elicit as much shared understanding as they give. Her new memoir, Hunger, is the story of being a physical woman in a physical world that has been shaped for so long by men. And I suspect that every woman who reads Hunger will recognize herself in it. For men who read the book, it will be more of a travelogue. Vade mecum.
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August 10, 2017 5:56 AM
From the essay-review:
Hunger is [...] thoughtful reportage about a country we pretend we don’t know, one where women struggle every day for dignity, safety, and simple elbow room.
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Conversational Reading. Scott Esposito's blog, since 2004.
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The essayist is Scott Esposito, co-author of The End of Oulipo? (Zero Books, 2013). His writing has appeared in numerous venues, including Tin House, The Washington Post, Salon, the Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, The Point, Music & Literature, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere. He is editor in chief of The Quarterly Conversation, a senior editor to Two Lines, and a contributing editor to BOMB. In 2017 he will publish a book of creative nonfiction on film.
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August 8, 2017 9:09 AM
Scott Esposito is the co-author of The End of Oulipo? (Zero Books, 2013) His writing has appeared in numerous venues, including Tin House, The Washington Post, Salon, the Times Literary Supplement, The White Review, The Point, Music & Literature, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere. He is editor in chief of The Quarterly Conversation , a senior editor to Two Lines, and a contributing editor to BOMB . In 2017 he will publish a book of creative nonfiction on film.
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The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction is one of the most respected literary awards in the world.
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In 1926, when British publishers Chatto & Windus accepted Rosamond Lehmann’s first novel, Dusty Answer, they had modest hopes of its success. Young authors and tales of youthful experience dominated the market at the time, a craze sparked by Alec Waugh’s autobiographical best seller The Loom of Youth, published in 1917, when he was …
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