Women We Read This Week
Catapult’s Adopted Essay Series This week, I’m highlighting two essays from the recent Catapult series on adoption, which was expertly collected and edited by…
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Loss and Labor: An interview with Mira Ptacin
In 2008, when Mira Ptacin was five months pregnant, she attended a writing workshop in Northern California.
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Truth and Lies: An Interview with Janice Erlbaum
When Villard Books, a Random House imprint, published Janice Erlbaum’s second memoir, Have You Found Her (2008), Vanity Fair threw her a party at…
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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
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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Emergency Pot Cookie
If you are ever nineteen and living in San Francisco for the first time, working at your first writing job, getting paid, getting laid, carousing 24/7…
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Women We Read This Week
Rachel Riederer’s “The Teaching Class” in Guernica I read Riederer’s piece about a month ago, and though at first it didn’t stand out to…
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Bookmarked: Brittany Shoot’s Seven Science Writers
When I joined The Magazine as managing editor a year ago, the publication’s editor-publisher (and my boss) Glenn Fleishman and I had a number…
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Women We Read This Week
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
Cornelia Hesse-Honegger’s “Why I Traveled the World Hunting for Mutant Bugs” on Nautilus In this thought-provoking piece on her role as a scientific illustrator,…
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Women We Read This Week
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s “Towards a Fight” in The Rumpus It’s difficult to summarize Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s “Towards a Fight” not only because it is so wide-spanning, but…
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Bookmarked: Elissa Bassist’s Five Female Humor Writers
Editor’s Note: Even in our hyper-connected age, it can be pretty easy to fall into the habit of reading the same writers in the…
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