Gabriel García Márquez said of writing that "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it." Read More
Katherine Forrest is one of our iconic lesbian mystery novelists and Kate Delafield was our first out lesbian detective. Read More
"We’re writing about new areas of our lives. We have so much more to write about. The first wave was our coming out stories and now we are writing about so many other things. Ours are the only untold stories–it was true then, it’s true now. We’ve invented our lives. It’s just exciting to me, the books yet to be written.” Read More
As world leaders converge on South Africa this week to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela, the rest of us are...
“I had to write about Hild because she was so important. She changed the world. Her story demands to be told. She basically midwifed English literature. And there’s no book about this woman. The more I thought about it, the more I thought, well, why?” Read More
"The work of women, and how women live, is still diminished and demeaned, most especially if those women don’t play nice, which Lessing, famously curmudgeonly, did not." Read More
Reading White Girls one comes smack up against the most unpleasant of truths: America is neither post-racial, post-queer, nor post-feminist. Read More
Munro is oh-so-curious about the human condition about which she writes so splendidly, provocatively and compellingly. Read More
In her new novel, The Woman Upstairs, Messud takes the heart of a woman whose heart has been long-dormant, opens it up, layer by pumping layer, and by novel’s end, sets that heart on fire. Read More
The Rowling affair has raised the specter of women’s literary past in which the pseudonym was no mere whimsy, but essential to being taken seriously as a writer or even being published at all. Read More
