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Yoko
Here’s some positive feedback from the F Word on my Yoko Ono feature in the latest issue of Bitch. And a great post from Racialicious about it, too. I remember hearing a well-known writer talk about the time he worked at a national glossy and toiled over this investigative piece that went out into the world and then … nothing. Not a word of feedback. This, the opposite, is the gift.
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Oh Yoko!
My feature story on Yoko Ono — “Oh Yoko!: 20 Ways of Looking at an Art-World Icon” — is in the new issue of Bitch magazine and also online here. (And a link to it from Yoko’s Twitter.)
Thank you to all the amazing women who took the time to talk with me about Yoko Ono.
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Six Questions with Author Shira Tarrant
Here’s my latest “Six Questions” interview post on my Page Turner blog at Bitch. It’s with author Shira Tarrant on her book Men and Feminism.
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An Interview with Alice Elliott Dark
I interviewed writer Alice Elliott Dark this week for my Page Turner book blog at Bitch. I wanted to focus on her essay, “The Quiet One,” from the new anthology Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives, edited by Peter Terzian. Here’s the interview. This is one of my favorite passages from it:
“I am more and more drawn to nonfiction. I like the effort to remember, and to understand memories. It is a different kind of truth, because in nonfiction one is dealing with the irrational contradictions of real people, whereas in fiction the characters must have a mathematical precision that serves the form of the work. Fictional truth is unreal in many ways, though it may reflect human interpretations of reality, and human dreams.”
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Rave On: Cristy C. Road
The latest “Rave On” in my Page Turner book blog at Bitch is up now. It’s a rave about Assata Shakur’s autobiography, Assata, by illustrator and writer Cristy C. Road. Here it is.
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Rave On: Writer Nona Willis Aronowitz
A new “Rave On” post in my Page Turner book blog at Bitch is up now, and it’s writer Nona Willis Aronowitz’s rave about Rubyfruit Jungle, by Rita Mae Brown. I can’t believe I have not read this book yet! I love Nona’s review of it.
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Y.A. Lit Bitch Series: Sara Zarr
I just started my new Page Turner book blog series “Y.A. Lit Bitch” at Bitch. The series kicks off with the first interview I actually did for Page Turner: a Q&A with Y.A. novelist Sara Zarr. You can learn all about Zarr on her website.
I can’t say enough about how wonderful it was to correspond with Sara for this interview, which we did over e-mail. She’s completely gracious, super-responsive, and seems really, really down to earth. I love to read her blog, too.
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Farai Chideya Interview
My Q&A with Farai Chideya is on my Page Turner book blog at Bitch this week. It’s titled, “Farai Chideya on Fiction, Feminism, and Sophie’s Choices” (Sophie is the main character in her new novel, Kiss the Sky.)
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