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Women writers areincreasingly recognizedas the dominant force in the contemporary literary landscape.
Read on for selections from Amber Tamblyn, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and others.
One that particularly struck me is Louisa May AlcottsLittle Women.
Today I see the influences of Alcotts father, a major figure in transcendentalism and seriously pathetic money manager.
Maxine Hong KingstonsThe Woman Warriorwas groundbreaking in many ways.
Hongs talk stories also helped launch the careers of many most?
Chinese-American writers working today.
She plays dumb with the grifters who mistake her for rich.
She tries to keep her emotions in check.
This is my favorite of Rhyss novels.
The sick delusion and humor only get better from there.
Shes reimagining ancient myths stories we have been telling ourselves for millennia in bold and inclusive ways.
All of her work is excellent, but her last one is a great place to start.
She might be a slim, posh blonde, but she speaks to so many women.
Incisive and bracing, its an antidote to all the sentimentalities about what it means to become a mother.
A gift-book-size book that delivers the gift of feminist consciousness.
And because she was a poet and master storyteller.
I hadnt known before that characters like Marlys could exist, that they were worthy of existing.
It was my first inkling that lives that looked even slightly like mine could matter.
So I was thrilled in 2016 when Drawn and Quarterly published the expanded and updated version of this classic.
is like a clean hit of oxygen.
It helps me remember why writing matters.
Laila Lalami, author ofThe Other Americans(March 26)
This book!
What does falconry have to do with grief, you might wonder.
That is the beauty of this memoir.
It draws unexpected connections between animals and humans and creates a whole new vocabulary for exploring loss.
This year, were blessed to have a new book by the greatest living American writer Toni Morrison.
Im so excited to read it.
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