Woman Writer Willa Cather: A Forever View of the Mountain
A couple of years back, my sister Theresa and I visited the grave of novelist Willa Cather and her...
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Category: Nasty Women Writers
“I Would Prefer Not To”: Why The Bride! Is a Writerly Movie about (and by) a Nasty Woman Writer
The title of the 2026 feature film, The Bride!, indeed includes the exclamation point, and that is...
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An Uprush of Flight: Woman Writer May Sarton’s Grave
Each summer I return to New Hampshire and often drive through Nelson where May Sarton lived for...
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The Cemetery of Untold Stories, by Julia Alvarez
Alma Cruz is the central character in Julia Alvarez’s most recent novel, Cemetery of Untold...
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Simin Daneshvar: I Dream of a Universal Reconciliation (Iranian Woman Writer 1921-2012)
“When I am shivering from the cold, and darkness envelops me due to the scarcity of fuel and...
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Celebrating Trailblazer Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
Happy Birthday to Margaret Fuller, born on May 23, 1810. Our collective gifts to Margaret are the...
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The Swans of Harlem by Karen Valby. Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
These are the women who changed the way the world thinks about ballet and ballerinas, the women...
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In Support of Choice: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (1921-2006)
A while back, one of my male colleagues asked me what feminist books I recommend he read, and it...
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Rebecca Solnit: Chronicles of the American Mindscape
Rebecca Solnit is an historian who writes on the history of San Francisco, the West and the...
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