Purging the Unhealthy Value System of the American Literary World By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight It’s time writers free themselves from concepts like “break out books” and “making it.”
Woman Writes Story Challenging Gender Dynamics; Is Thwarted by…Long-Standing Gender Dynamics By Sari Botton Highlight How can we combat sexism in publishing if we’re so worried about damaging the reputations of offending men?
How The Cult of Masculinity Can Poison Creative Writing Programs By Aaron Gilbreath Highlight There are numerous ways to tell stories. In her turn MFA program, one writer encountered a literary culture that espoused gendered aesthetics and fostered toxic masculinity.
On Silence (or, Speak Again) By Elissa Bassist Feature Elissa Bassist breaks her silence about everything she’s not supposed to talk about and comes out alive.
An Elegy for Bette Howland, a Writer Who Was Nearly Forgotten By A. N. Devers Commentary On the passing of a MacArthur Genius forgotten for decades, re-discovered by ‘A Public Space’ editor Brigid Hughes.
This Is How a Woman Is Erased From Her Job By A. N. Devers Feature After taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as the editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine’s history.
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