Vivian Gornick’s Taking a Long Look: What 2nd Wave Feminists and Women Writers Got Right That We Still Benefit From Today
I was excited to find a new collection of essays by feminist writer Vivian Gornick, Taking a Long...
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Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway: Being, Non-Being, and the Spiritual Continuum Holding Up the World–A Woman Writer on Writing
In her autobiographical memoir, “A Sketch of the Past,” Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) writes of...
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Sonya Renee Taylor: The Map Back to Ourselves
Since reading Sonya Renee Taylor’s book The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical...
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Women Writers on Writing: 5 Gifts From Ursula K. Le Guin’s Last Novel
Lavinia, Ursula K. Le Guin’s last novel, written in 2008 when she was 79 is a gift in many ways....
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Morgan Jerkins: This woman writer is on fire! And we all get to benefit.
Morgan Jerkins is a woman writer on fire who we are all benefitting from. At 29 she has written...
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Willa Cather’s My Ántonia: An Unusually Beautiful Read
I thoroughly enjoyed my recent reading of Willa Cather’s 1918 novel My Ántonia. There is something...
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Cathy Park Hong (Korean American Woman Writer b.1976): Writing the Language of Change
Cathy Park Hong’s poetry is powerfully unique. In a reading I watched on YouTube, part of The Loft...
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Happy 100th Birthday to Betty Friedan!
On February 4, 2021, Betty Friedan would have turned 100 years old. Although she passed away 15...
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Holding Space for the Past and the Future: Indigenous Woman Writer Velma Wallis and the Stories of the Gwich’in People of Alaska
Velma Wallis’ books take the reader directly and swiftly into another world, a land of ice and...
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