Tag Archives: Books
Quick hit: Liza Mundy on Colbert
TweetLast night, Liza Mundy, author of The Richer Sex, was the guest on The Colbert Report. Mundy’s book is really important, and if you haven’t already read it, I suggest you go borrow it from your local library this weekend. It’s a look at how the economy changes at both a macro and a micro [...]
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron, 1941-2012
Tweet Essayist and filmmaker Nora Ephron has died. Nora Ephron was a giant. Ephron wrote the screenplay for “Silkwood”, best known as the writer of the seminal romantic comedy “When Harry Met Sally” and wrote and directed the wildly successful (and still one of my favorites) “You’ve Got Mail”. If you haven’t seen “Silkwood”, please [...]
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Political fictions
TweetWe are gifted with a President who can write. A kind of chronicle of a president foretold, Obama beat any biographer to the punch in penning his first book, Dreams from My Father, nearly twenty years ago. I remember reading that book review, obliquely, noting in my notebook as a “summer read.” I didn’t get [...]
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Win a copy of So Much Pretty by Cara Hoffman
TweetThis week, Cara Hoffman’s debut novel So Much Pretty comes out in paperback, and today, we are giving away copies of this remarkable book to five lucky Feministing readers. I reviewed So Much Pretty last year: … this is a book about how every one of us colludes in rape culture. It’s about how we [...]
Vagina, by any other name.