Women We Read This Week
1. Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s “The High Price of Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Life” in The New York Times Magazine This piece has rightfully garnered a ton of…
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Lacy M. Johnson’s Five Essayists
This past October the New York Times Sunday Book Review asked, “Is This a Golden Age for Women Essayists?”
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Women We Read This Week
Andrea Barrett’s “Traveling Corpse” in The American Scholar I’ve always loved Andrea Barrett’s historical fiction, and in this essay she narrates the process of…
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Women We Read This Week
Sarah Schweitzer’s “Chasing Bayla” in The Boston Globe For the second time in two months, my “Women We Read This Week” pick is a…
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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
Alice Bolin’s “The Oldest Story: Toward a Theory of a Dead Girl Show,” in the Los Angeles Review of Books I like True Detective…
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Women We Read This Week
Erica Wagner’s “Life and death at his fingertips: watching a brain surgeon at work” in The New Statesman This was published last month, but…
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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
Leslie Jamison’s “The Empathy Exams: A Medical Actor Writers Her Own Script” in The Believer In Leslie Jamison’s brilliant (seriously, please go read it…
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Women We Read This Year: 2013
It’s that time of year, the time of Bests and Mosts and pretty much any superlative you can think of that will fit in…
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Women We Read This Week
Joanna Walsh’s “In Cyberspace: a love letter” in Granta Here is a thoroughly modern love story, largely enacted online, in “the place we all…
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It’s Not Personal
This past fall, I went with seven other third-year nonfiction MFA students from the University of Pittsburgh to New York to pitch editors…
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