Women We Read This Week
Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s “The Transgender Crucible” in Rolling Stone At one point in the story of CeCe MacDonald, a trans woman who was charged…
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Meredith Broussard’s “Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing” on The Atlantic Forget for a moment the irony of an article critiquing financial…
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Women We Read This Week
Sara Corbett’s “The Unbearable Lightness of Being the Boarder Queen” in Outside Never mind the mixed-up byline (the online version credits Michael Llewellyn). This…
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Women We Read This Week
Eva Saulitis’s “Wild Darkness” in Orion For the past twenty-six years, Eva Saulitis has hiked trails along streams in Prince William Sound observing humpbacked…
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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 Week
Casey N. Cep’s “The Allure of the Map” in The New Yorker Literary cartography fascinates and guides the way that actual cartography does; that’s…
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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
Lauren Collins’ “Bansky Was Here” in The New Yorker Obsessed to the point of conversion, Thierry Guetta started out making a documentary about street…
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Women We Read This Week
Cari Luna’s “Priced Out of New York” in Salon I’ve always said that New York is one of the most provincial cities in the…
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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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Two Essential Feminist Reads
Deborah Copaken Kogan’s “My So-Called ‘Post-Feminist’ Life in Arts and Letters” in The Nation I remember sitting in my Craft of Memoir course in…
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A $20,000 Reward For Jonah Lehrer’s Arrogance
This week in my Intro to Nonfiction and Journalism class, I am teaching Rebecca Solnit’s “Men Explain Things to Me.”
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