The Autobiography of Malcolm X with Alex Haley
some thoughts on reading one of the 20th century’s most important books
Tag: misogyny
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula le Guin
reading more earthsea, hating everything else
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
powerful novel that should be better known
Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story by D. T. Max
David Foster Wallace was a prick.
We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Men: they wear T-shirts saying “Smash the patriarchy” with an arrow pointing at their penis
“Cuban Prostitutes” from Tell Me About Love
In memory of Fidel Castro, some prose inspired by Pedro Juan Gutierrez from a decade ago.
The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler
So, as I periodically do, I decided to take a book off “serious” fiction and have a bit of aContinue Reading
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf’s famous non-fiction treatise on ‘Women and Fiction’, A Room of One’s Own, is an embarrassingly prescient text aboutContinue Reading
I Don’t Need You Any More by Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller’s 1967 collection of stories, I Don’t Need You Any More, contains one of the finest pieces of short fictionContinue Reading
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
I’ve never read much philosophy. Technically JUST Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman. So, for me, reading Friedrich Nietzsche’sContinue Reading
Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Woman is an important* text. Written at the end of the eighteenth century byContinue Reading
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
I’m going to be utterly uncharacteristic and not write a glowing review of a book. I found Rabbit, Run a bitContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 