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Penis Rays, Self-Loathing and Psychic Voodoo: Autobiographical Cartoonists on Truth and Lies

from Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel I'm staring across the kitchen table at the cartoonist Alison Bechdel, filled with a vague sense of dread. I am trying not to dwell on the regrettable fact…
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8411 words)

What It Cost Eight Women Writers To Make It In New York

Top row: Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Jackson, Gael Greene. Bottom row: Patti Smith, Susan Sontag, Tama Janowitz, Kate Christensen. In 1967, Patti Smith wrote in Just Kids, she was…
AUTHOR:Brent Cox
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5736 words)

The Autumn of Joan Didion

In the spring of 2006, shortly after the publication of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, Slate assembled a panel of three young critics—Meghan O’Rourke, Katie Roiphe,…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1705 words)
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