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\"May<\/a>

May or may not be competent needle-woman.<\/p><\/div>\n

  • \u201cA large number of literary females are excellent needle-women, and good housewives.\u201d Etiquette for dealing with the authoress<\/a>, from 1854.<\/li>\n
  • You might see the headline \u201c5 Books with Awful Original Titles\u201d and think, Oh, how bad can they be? And then you read the list<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • George R. R. Martin enjoyed<\/a> the new Gatsby<\/em>. In case you were wondering.<\/li>\n
  • Meanwhile, Joyce Carol Oates takes to Twitter <\/a>to discuss the experience of media.\u00a0\u201cIf you are a writer, only writing really engages your concentration & excitement\u2014even reading is a relatively passive activity.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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