An Interview with Lizzie Skurnick
July 31st, 2009
My Page Turner interview with Shelf Discovery author Lizzie Skurnick is up now on Bitch‘s site.
Lizzie was a wonderful interview. Not surprisingly, she’s very much like the voice of her “Fine Lines” column, and I laughed out loud many times.
I love her book and couldn’t stop thinking about my sister the whole time that I read it. I’m a reader, but my sister was—and remains—the master Papazian reader. She devoured books (along with bags of Doritos) in single afternoon sessions. She had all the YA series from back in the day—from Nancy Drew to Laura Ingalls, and I snagged all her Judy Blumes. Who knows where they are now, but I’m inspired to find them.
Categories: Interviews, Page Turner, Published Work, Writers
Rave On: Estelle Freedman
July 29th, 2009
The latest Rave On post on my Page Turner book blog at Bitch is by Ellen Freedman, the Robinson Professor in U.S. History at Stanford University and cofounder of the Program in Feminist Studies.
She raves about Susan Brownmiller’s Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. Check it out here.
Categories: Page Turner, Published Work, Rave On
Six Questions for Jessica Hopper
July 24th, 2009
I just posted a new Q&A for the “Six Questions” series on my “Page Turner” book blog at Bitch magazine online.
It’s an interview with Jessica Hopper, the music and culture critic who just released the book Girls’ Guide to Rocking. You can read the Q&A here. Feministing just gave it a mention in their “Weekly Feminist Reader.” (Thanks for the mention!)
Categories: Interviews, Page Turner, Six Questions
Hello Page Turner
July 23rd, 2009
I did my introductory post for Page Turner last week, and it gave me the opportunity to do my own mini-rave about the book Y E S Yoko Ono, by Alexandra Munroe, Yoko Ono, Jon Hendricks, and Bruce Altshuler.
I. Adore. This. Book. Just looking at its cover brings me back inside the Ono retrospective at the Japan Society in 2000. I felt so light being there. (Didn’t everybody?) We chose a stone and then moved it, from one pile to the other.
Categories: Page Turner, Published Work
Rave On: Jessica Hoffmann
July 23rd, 2009
The latest post for my “Rave On” series on my Page Turner book blog at Bitch‘s website is up, and it’s a rave from Jessica Hoffmann on Angela Y. Davis’s Women, Race, and Class.
Jessica is the co-editor and copublisher of make/shift magazine and, quite simply, a really wonderful person to work with. Prior to working with her on the “Rave On” post, I interviewed her for Feminist Review.
I’ve gotten such a great response from the women I’ve reached out to for the series so far, and I hope Bitch‘s audience gets something out of it as well. I realize that what I love most about the series is its built-in qualities of connectivity and community.
Categories: Page Turner, Published Work, Rave On
Catching Up with Red’s Teen Writers
July 20th, 2009
I’ve been guest blogging on Bitch‘s website, where I created the new Page Turner blog.
Today I posted my piece Catching Up with Red’s Teen Girl Writers. It’s no big secret that I’m passionate about YA fiction and nonfiction. The Red anthology editor Amy Goldwasser was just wonderful to work with on this post, and she connected me (can we say pronto?) with the five young women featured in it. I loved reading their responses to my questions on young women and feminism, a topic I never get tired of.
I’m still feeling out a groove for the Page Turner blog, so please leave a comment and let me know what you think (here, on Bitch‘s site, or on their Facebook group, which, by the way, you should totally join).
Categories: Interviews, Page Turner, Published Work
