Women We Read This Week
1. Rachel Monroe’s “#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement” for The New Yorker Years ago, when my husband and I were traveling around the West…
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Women We Read This Week
Amber Brooks’s “I Believe Love Is Largely An Act of Imagination” in The Establishment In her lyric essay, Amber Brooks sets the stakes: she’s…
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Women We Read This Week
Zehra Rehman’s “Lingering: How One Indigenous Reserve is Coping With Canada’s Suicide Crisis” in Buzzfeed In “Lingering,” Zehra Rehman tackles the question, “Why Are…
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Women We Read This Week
Laurie Penny’s “Women can’t have it all – because the game is rigged” in the New Statesman Laurie Penny is excellent here on the…
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Anne Helen Petersen’s Ten Writers on Entertainment
I come to journalism from an untraditional background (I received a PhD in media studies and spent three years as a professor before coming…
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Women We Read This Week
Amy Klein’s “Fertility Fog” on Aeon Early on in this piece, Klein recounts a conversation with her doctor. “I’d been in the woman’s office…
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Women We Read This Week
Quinn Norton’s “The Land That Never Has Been Yet” on Medium In her most recent piece for Medium, writer Quinn Norton begins with: It’s…
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Women We Read This Week
“It’s Always Spilling Over the Edges”: Jamie Green interviews Leslie Jamison on BuzzFeed I’ve been loving Leslie Jamison’s essays from her new collection, The…
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Women We Read This Week
Rachel Monroe’s “Fire Behavior” in Oxford American Read enough literary journalism and it becomes easy to trace the intentions and arguments of a piece…
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Women We Read This Week
Madeleine Schwartz’s Interview With Vivian Gornick in The Believer Here’s one for the writers in the house. And the ladies. And especially the writer ladies….
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