VIDA is an organization with a unique mission: to quantify women’s representation in the literary arts. Their approach? Count.
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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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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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OK. That’s a strong statement but hear me out. How many male bylines do you see attached to click-bait titles like “My Year of Having…
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THEY SAY that laughter is the best medicine; that laughter is the cure for grief. And on the worst of days, when everything that could…
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SEVEN years ago I wrote a piece about the six degrees of separation between myself and Vice President Joe Biden, wherein I described an evening at…
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TO BE a freelance writer is not all cool, calm, and collecting checks. To succeed you need Drive (like Ryan Gosling), old-fashioned American Hustle (like Jennifer…
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