The Worse That Threatens
made no move to turn on the oven or the space heater to warm our apartment. This was part of my morning custom, but…
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A Thing of Beauty
unch at the Fournets is just as I imagined it would be. Their apartment is tidy but stylish, colorful but understated. The two girls,…
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Short Prose and Persistence: An Interview with Penny Guisinger
Penny Guisinger recently went on the United State’s easternmost book tour for her first memoir, Postcards from Here.
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The Edge of Extraordinary
I am nearing the end of my first writerly—read, sedentary—summer ever.
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Lorraine M. López’s Six Writers on Social Class
When asked to compose a list of women who write about social class, a parade of female authors marched through my head. The table…
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Sarah Stillman’s Six Reporters to Follow
In most parts of life, I’m a fiendish scribbler of lists (to-dos, to-reads, to-repents, etc.), but when it comes to this particular assignment –…
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Women We Read This Week
Meaghan O’Connell’s “A Birth Story” on Longreads So, Meaghan O’Connell’s “A Birth Story” is a fascinating, horrifying, gripping read just for its bare revelations…
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Listing the Unlisted
Over the past week, dozens of people — men and women — have taken Vela’s #listtheunlisted challenge, naming all of the women writers they…
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Women We Read This Week
Jenny Nordberg’s “The Afghan Girls Who Live as Boys” in The Atlantic At school, Mahnoush is known as Mehran; at work, Niima is called…
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Leave to Remain
When I was younger I used to fantasize about having a button I could press that would pause the world around me while I caught my breath, had a nap…
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Bookmarked: Angie Chuang’s Five Female Journalists
The term “female journalist” implies that the gendered modifier is necessary because we assume that a plain old “journalist” is male. As with “male…
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Women We Read This Week
Lizzy Goodman’s “Kendrick Lamar, Hip-Hop’s Newest Old-School Star” in The New York Times Magazine On the surface, this is a well-done profile of unexpected…
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