Women We Read This Week
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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Women We Read This Week
Sarah Stillman’s “Kidnapped at the Border” in The New Yorker Sarah Stillman has done it again. The young-enough-to-make-you-feel-really-bad-about-your-accomplishments staff writer at The New…
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Women We Read This Week
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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Women We Read This Week
Stephanie Sinclair’s “Child, Bride, Mother” in The New York Times On June 18th, 2007 I wrote in my journal: “She had a C-section and…
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Women We Read This Week
Elizabeth Alexander’s “Lottery Tickets” in The New Yorker This is a love story. A tale of loss, but a love story before that, and…
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Women We Read This Week
Raksha Kumar’s “Trying to tame the wild west of surrogacy in India” in Al Jazeera America I often wonder, “When are women’s bodies ever…
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Rachel Sturtz’s “Unprotected” in Outside Colorado-based Rachel Sturtz spent a year investigating this story, about USA Swimming’s handling of coaches who sexually abuse and…
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Lionel Shriver’s “I was poor but I was happy” in The Guardian What a lovely thing to wake up to on a weekday morning:…
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Andria Williams’ Five Women Fiction Writers on War
As a fiction writer and a member of an active-duty Navy family, I am always curious about how the public views us military folk….
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Women We Read This Week
Daisy Hernández’s “Latina at the white, male New York Times” in Salon The title of this piece suggests a screed, but what unfolds is…
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Women We Read This Week
If you enjoy this story, please consider supporting Vela’s quest to pay writers on Kickstarter! We thank you infinitely for your support. Carolyn Kormann’s “The…
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Women We Read This Week
Janet Malcolm’s “Iphigenia in Forest Hills” in The New Yorker In the erratic throes of new motherhood, I’ve been doing a lot of baby…
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