MARY GAITSKILL’S THE MARE revolves around a pun: the aural slippage between the title — “mare” — and “mère,” which is French for “mother.” To see this…
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A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN finds Virginia Woolf in 1929, trying “to remember any case in the course of [her] reading where two women are…
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“You piss someone off? Stand behind it.”
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IN THE LATE 1990S, a new genre took the fiction world by storm. It was called “chick lit,” and it was fabulous. If Gen-Xers wanted to…
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THERE’S A LOT TO TALK ABOUT when picking Sara Saedi’s brain on being a successful female writer. Saedi started her career as a young television…
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The following is a post in our Side Book series, in which we speak with authors at length about their forthcoming books. Because, like our…
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