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Report From The Post-Feminist Mystique
If you are not a subscriber to The Nation you may have missed author Deborah Copaken Kogan’s “My So-Called Post-Feminist Lit Life.” Riffing off the title of the TV series about adolescent female angst...
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Gossip Girl: Hedda Hopper’s Conservative Empire
Jennifer Frost, Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism. New York University Press, 2011. 281 pp. Index. B & W illustrations. Hardcover $31.50; Kindle $15.12. Hedda...
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A Dinner Party with Pussy Riot and Judy Chicago
Two members of the Moscow-based feminist punk rock collective Pussy Riot have been spotted in New York City in the last week. One of their destinations was the Landmark Sunshine Theater on Manhattan’s...
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Your Weekly Radical Reader: Shorts From Around The Web
My current favorite shorts are being worn by Rafa out in Queens. There’s a lot sitting on our desk at Tenured Radical, each item of which deserves its own post. But since we will be away much of the...
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Who Pays for Free? When Universities Give Our Work Away
David Delgado Shorter In today’s Wired Campus, Hannah Winston reports that the chancellor’s office of California’s community college system will make materials that they have funded available for free...
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The Education of Henry Adams: A Review
Henry and his book in fall, 2013 (Photo credit: Rachel Adams) Rachel Adams, Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability and Discovery (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013). 272 pp. $17.95....
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Random Pieces of Writing Fun
Here’s a redirect to my book blog where, to celebrate completing another draft chapter, I describe my weird writing process. You’ve heard the expression “when pigs fly?” Well, the little porkers are...
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Berks Day 3: Is The Book Dead? (Uh, No)
When I wasn’t selling memberships to the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians (you can buy one here, or outside the book exhibit tomorrow), or announcing the new Berks website launching in beta...
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J. Edgar Hoover Uncensored
Yale’s Beverly Gage has an essay in the New York Times about the famous letter sent to Martin Luther King on November 18, 1964 accusing him of being “a colossal fraud and an evil, vicious one at that.”...
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How We Make Money From Books
I recently had the good fortune and pleasure of signing, and returning, a new book contract. It is only the third one I have ever been offered, and I am happy to say that over time, these documents...
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