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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Margarita Gokun Silver’s “Right on Track” in Aeon I once took a train from Virginia to Louisiana because it seemed like less of a…
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Palmer’s piece begins with a family on the run. It’s her family, but they have new names and are not sure where they’re headed.
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“The comments are a shit show.” This from a friend on Facebook, a warning perhaps or an expression of vicarious disappointment. “I read the first one and threw my phone across the room.”
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Gina Frangello’s “Did My Best Friend Really Know Me?” in DAME Gina Frangello’s most recent novel, A Life in Men, was (despite its title)…
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Jill Talbot’s “A Brief History” on The Nervous Breakdown I first became aware of Jill Talbot through her fascinating essay in DIAGRAM called “The…
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Amanda Filipacchi’s “How to Pose Like a Man” in The New York Times Much has been said about how women’s writing is packaged and…
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Wednesday Martin’s “Poor Little Rich Women” in The New York Times This is a brief but fascinating look into the lives of the uber…
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Monica Hesse’s “The Long Drive to End a Pregnancy” in The Washington Post In a spare, powerful story, Monica Hesse chronicles a woman’s 407-mile…
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Kathryn Miles’ “How Could a Woman Just Vanish?” in The Boston Globe This is right up my alley: an ambitious hike, a mysterious…
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Rivka Galchen’s “Do Money Woes Spur Creativity or Stifle It?” in The New York Times I’m always curious about how writers survive financially….
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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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