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How to Talk to Lady Writers, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
May 20, 2013
On the Shelf
May or may not be competent needle-woman.
“A large number of literary females are excellent needle-women, and good housewives.” Etiquette for
dealing with the authoress
, from 1854.
You might see the headline “5 Books with Awful Original Titles” and think, Oh, how bad can they be? And
then you read the list
.
George R. R. Martin enjoyed
the new
Gatsby
. In case you were wondering.
Meanwhile, Joyce Carol Oates
takes to Twitter
to discuss the experience of media. “If you are a writer, only writing really engages your concentration & excitement—even reading is a relatively passive activity.”
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