In 1898, novelist Arnold Bennett wrote in Journalism for Women: A Practical Guide: “Is there any sexual reason why a woman should be a less accomplished journalist than a man? I can find none...” Read Bookslut column by clicking here
Filmfatale reviews Make Way For Tomorrow
I'd never heard of it, but Leo McCarey had also directed one of my favorite films, The Awful Truth (made the same year, 1937), and I had been meaning to go for some time to one of The National Gallery's Saturday afternoon screenings of classic films. Their flyer billed Make Way For Tomorrow as "one …
Los Angeles’ Deputy Mayor for Education, Joan Sullivan, says “It’s a risky proposition to get involved in education, but it’s a risky proposition not to get involved too.”
Jim Newton of the Los Angeles Times assesses the Mayor's success with the "hard-case schools" in a recent op-ed about my incredible sister he writes: "Villaraigosa's deputy mayor for education, Joan Sullivan, manages this enterprise with intensity and a deep sense of mission. She is a welcome departure from the many education experts in Los …
Alba: Dans Les Rues de Paris
If you like Edith Piaf, Danielle Darrieux, Carla Bruni, you will love my friend Alba's stunning voice, gorgeous piano playing, and iridescent lyrics. Have a listen here and then come along, if you happen to be on this side of the pond, to hear her live on March 24 at 8:00 at The Paradise, 19 Kilburn Lane, …
Clarice Lispector, Hélène Cixous, and L’Écriture Féminine: My March column at Bookslut
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Fashion Week in Milan: Flash Curler Art
Photo courtesy of a young friend and her phone
“Our Generalized Amnesia”: My February Column at Bookslut on Women’s Lost Literature
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In Good Company at The Hudson Review
The Isolated Protagonist: Three Novels by Orhan Pamuk, Jenny McPhee, and Laura Stevenson by Emily Grosholz THE PROTAGONISTS OF THESE THREE RECENT NOVELS are people who live in the periphery of society, and so seem also to live on the outskirts of their own lives, observing, commenting, never really engaging---with one exception. Though there is …
“Holly Golightly Needs a New Dress”: My January column at Bookslut
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Jenny McPhee 