A personal essay in which Emily Gould pays homage to the wide range of women food writers and cookbook authors who affected her own cooking, and her lifestyle aspirations, over the course of her adult life so far.
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Posted inBusiness & Tech, Nonfiction, Quotes, Unapologetic Women
Ellen Pao Is Ready to Name Names
In an excerpt from her upcoming book, Pao reveals the harassment and discrimination she experienced at a Silicon Valley venture firm.
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Body Positivity Nudges Plus-Size Fashion Forward
Despite a high demand for it, plus-size fashion has been largely neglected and poorly executed by major brands. But that’s starting to change.
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Fashion for the 67 Percent: A Revolution in the Plus-Size Market
An article about the burgeoning business of plus-size women’s fashion. Author Ashley C. Ford also weaves in her own story — as a plus-size customer who often has a hard time finding clothes in regular stores, and as someone who was discouraged from her dream of designing plus-size clothes.
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How Jazz Singer Baby Esther Jones Became Betty Boop
Gabrielle Bellot explores the original inspiration for Betty Boop—a black jazz singer with an iconic style and voice.
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Rachel Cusk on Eschewing her ‘Cuskness’ For Her Alter-Ego in ‘Outline’ and ‘Transit’
Rachel Cusk talks to Heidi Julavits about the “trench” she digs between herself and representations of herself, in both memoir and “autofiction.”
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Choose Your Own Rachel Cusk
A profile of feminist author–memoirist, novelist–Rachel Cusk, and the many contradictions contained within her, and her writing.
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My Mother’s Murder: ‘I am good at keeping secrets. I am good at telling lies.’
It took Leah Carroll years to determine that her mother was murdered by an organized crime syndicate as a suspected drug informant.
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A Reading List Inspired by the Seven Deadly Sins
I used the seven deadly sins–lust, gluttony, envy, greed, sloth, pride, and anger — as the springboard for choosing these stories. 1. LUST: “Eileen Myles on the Excruciating Pain of Waiting for Love.” (Eileen Myles, The Cut, February 2016) Poet and novelist Eileen Myles muses on a summer fling that should’ve lasted forever. 2. GLUTTONY: […]
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Cat Marnell’s Rehab Writing Retreat
At The Cut, Emily Gould profiles Cat Marnell, the famously self-destructive former beauty editor who miraculously managed to complete a compelling, well-written memoir, How to Murder Your Life — despite first blowing her entire advance on drugs.