Women We Read This Week
Nicole Pasulka’s “Wanted: Macho Men With Moustaches” in The Believer I never spent a lot of time thinking about the cultural phenomenon of the…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of the some of the best pieces by women we read this week. Eliza Griswold’s “Landays” in Poetry This piece of investigative…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Lauren Westerfield’s “Twenty-Seven” in The Rumpus This essay tackles a…
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On Rebecca Solnit’s The Faraway Nearby
For almost two years now, I’ve been making a dress. I bought the pattern and a roll of fabric on holiday in Wales, but I didn’t have a sewing machine…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Helena Fitzgerald’s “Albums of Our Lives: Bob Dylan’s Blonde on…
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Reading Emily Rapp
To read Emily Rapp’s memoir The Still Point of the Turning World is to have that life river that you’re navigating—an eddy here, a riffle there…
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On Packing
It is best to use a well-made bed or the floor, so long as you have a large, smooth, clear surface, a canvas, if you will.
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Seeking Suggestions: Nonfiction by Women Writers for Upcoming “Unlisted List”
Dear Nonfiction Reader of High Taste and Open Mind: We need your help! International Women’s Day is this week, and the VIDA Count is…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Suzanne Richardson’s “Oh Niagara!”, winner of The Journal‘s 2012 Nonfiction…
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life I asked for and received…
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The Writing Life, The Agonies of Process, and A New Year’s Resolution
Kurt Vonnegut wrote for two hours every morning: two hours of intense concentration, giving it his all, and done.
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Women We Read This Week
A gathering of some of the best pieces by women we’ve read this week. Zadie Smith’s “Joy” in The New York Review of Books…
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