What If George Eliot Were Mary Ann Evans Instead?
Well, George Eliot is Mary Ann Evans. She chose a male pen name, believing that using her own name would not allow her to be taken seriously as a writer.Over on Thought Catalog, s.e. smith writes about...
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The Big Idea #8: Rebecca Mead
Even on a rainy December day, London’s Highgate Cemetery tempts the smart-phone photographer. It’s hard to leave without a shot of the weirdly gigantic bust of Karl Marx, who’s buried there, or of the...
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The Rumpus Interview with Darcey Steinke
Over five novels and a highly acclaimed memoir, Darcey Steinke has made an art of considering the truths to be found in spiritual rootlessness. In her new novel Sister Golden Hair, the narrator is a...
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Sometimes privilege can be confusing. Over at the Guardian, male writers explain why they decided to publish under female pseudonyms:Does it help to be identified as a woman, or to have no gender at...
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A Brief History of Pandering
Claire Vaye Watkins’s essay “On Pandering,” about how much her writing has been influenced by a desire for the approval of the “white male lit establishment,” caused such a frenzy that it crashed Tin...
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My point is that she’s a bit of a paradox.Over at McSweeney’s, Amy Watkins explains why George Eliot has every right to be really, really upset.Related Posts:FUNNY WOMEN #142: How to Be a Female...
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The Rumpus Interview with Larissa MacFarquhar
Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1998, where she’s written about all kinds of people, from Barack Obama to Noam Chomsky to the Badeau family (who become known for...
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What to Read When You Feel Too Much
Since I was a little girl, I’ve often felt as if I were spilling everywhere. For me, living in the world means to throb at saturation point, brimful of restless, inchoate emotion. I feel too much; I...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #211: Rachel Vorona Cote
When I first learned of the title of Rachel Vorona Cote’s first book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today, it viscerally grabbed me, evoking in me a sense of immediate...
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project: Andrew Bertaina
Andrew Bertaina’s character-driven short stories are filled with people who are longing for love and connection, in a world where emotional fulfillment feels just out of reach. These tangled yearnings...
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