Read my interview with poetess and literary critic Meghan O’Rourke about her memoir, The Long Goodbye, in SMITH Magazine.
Tags: classic literature, family, grief, identity, meghan o'rourke, Memoir, motherhood, The long goodbye, women's personal writing, writing
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Dear Loyal Readers,
I’ll be reading from my short story, “Dorian in Germany” on May 9th at 7 pm at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in SoHo. Please stop by and say hello!
Love, Koa
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My Bookslut review of An Object of Beauty: A Novel by Steve Martin was added to the amazing Lady Journos — dedicated to closing the byline gender gap!
Tags: An Object of Beauty: A Novel, Bookslut, byline gender gap, feminism, gender gap, Lady Journos, Manhattan, new york city, sexism, Steve Martin, the male gaze
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Read my entire review of Peggy Orenstein’s fourth book about princess culture on Bookslut.
Peggy Orenstein’s fourth book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, chronicles the author’s journey through America’s princess culture with her young daughter, Daisy. Beginning with Disney princesses, Orenstein comes to examine American Girl dolls, the “tween” market, Miley Cyrus, social media, beauty pageants, and of course, Barbie, all in the united effort to best understand the decisions she is making for her daughter. Acknowledging early on in Cinderella Ate My Daughter the tumultuous battlefield of potential body issues, poor self-esteem, rampant sexism, and gender essentialist impositions, Orenstein opens her book with an awareness for the road ahead in raising a girl.
Tags: American Girl doll, Barbie, beauty pageant, Bookslut, childrearing, Cinderella Ate my Daughter, daughter, Disney, family, female roles, feminism, identity, motherhood, parenting, Peggy Orenstein, princess, princess culture, self-esteem, sexism, tween, women in media
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Feminist writer and activist Maxine Hong Kingston talks to me about using Walt Whitman as a character, why she loves Virginia Woolf, and superstitions about writing on SMITH magazine.
Tags: classic literature, I Love a Broad Margin to My Life, Kate Millet, Kate Millet Flying, Maxine Hong Kingston, Maxine Hong Kingston interview, Memoir, Orlando, SMITH magazine, superstition, vanity, Virginia Woolf, Walt Whitman, women's personal writing, writing
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