Paris Memoir
COUNTDOWN: PLATFORMING
This is the second installment of the “countdown” posts I’m doing for shewrites.com. In my last post I chronicled the long and winding road I
October 31, 2013
Paris Memoir
COUNTDOWN: The Journey
I’m posting four installments on the amazing website shewrites.com about the imminent publication of my new memoir. The countdown is a regular rubric where members
October 24, 2013
Noted
This Sex Which Is Not One
Sound familiar? Cast your mind back to Luce Irigaray’s essay (also book title). Sometimes I think everything important about women was written in the 1970s,
October 17, 2013
Friendship
What I Don’t Want to Remember
There are lots of jokes about forgotten anniversaries, usually to reprove husbands who have forgotten the anniversary of their marriage. I have forgotten my own
October 10, 2013
Noted
I’ll Have What She’s…
How many readers still know how to finish the sentence? Or that “I’ll Have What She’s Having” found instant fame in Nora Ephron’s 1989 witty
October 4, 2013
Welcome. Some musings on my current preoccupations with the worlds of illness and the worlds of books: the vicissitudes of living with cancer and the need, for now, to launch (a k a promote) my new memoir, My Brilliant Friends: Our Lives in Feminism. Naturally, I inhabit both spaces, which makes for a strangely bifurcated, though far from boring, existence. Click to view both Feminist Friendship Archive and My Metastatic Life projects.
Archives
Categories
Tags
1960s
Anthony Weiner
Bogliasco
Breathless: An American Girl in Paris
Cancer
Carolyn Heilbrun
Chemo
Death
Diane Middlebrook
Emily Dickinson
Femen
feminism
feminist
Feminist Friendship Archive
Friends
friendship
Girls
Graffiti
Hillary Clinton
Italy
Jane Austen
Jenny Diski
Jewish
journalism
London
Lung Cancer
Mary Beard
memoir
Memory
My Metastatic Life
New York
Old
Oliver Sacks
Paris
Poetry
Procrastination
Simone de Beauvoir
Smoking
Suicide
Susan Gubar
Terry Castle
Travel writing
Twitter
What They Saved
Women Writers