Michelle Dean
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Michelle Dean is a journalist, critic, screenwriter, and the recipient of the National Book Critics Circle's 2016 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. A contributing editor at the New Republic, she has written for the New Yorker, Nation, New York Times Magazine, Slate, New York näytä lisää Magazine, Elle, Harper's Magazine, and BuzzFeed. She is also the co-creator of Hulu's The Act. She lives in Los Angeles. näytä vähemmän
Tekijän teokset
La Maison du Bon Rêve 1 kappale
The Act — Creator — 1 kappale
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The Second Shelf: A Quarterly of Rare Books & Words by Women (Issue 1, Autumn 2018) — Avustaja — 3 kappaletta
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Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion Tekijä: Michelle Dean
Well-researched but she doesn’t seem to like her subjects much. I felt a critical edge throughout.
Engrossing picture of a series of intelligent, articulate women.
This is something of a literary criticism, history and biography of 10 women writers of the 20th century who had a great deal of influence and insight into journalism, philosophy, political science and feminism. All broke barriers of one sort or other in journalism, literary criticism, political science and philosophy, broadcasting, film and theatre criticism, screen writing and fiction.
Most are American but it includes German, British writers.
The book starts with Dorothy Parker and ends with Janet Malcolm.
Featured writers are Rebecca West, Mary McCarthy, Zora Neal’s Hurston, Hanna Arendt, Susan Sontag, Lillian Hellman, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion! Nora Ephrom, Renata Adler, Janet Malcolm
Interesting to discover what they endured for their craft. Some were successful, some not so much. Success came at a price: some were very lonely, ostracized, unhappily married or self isolated. Alcohol played a large role in their lives.… (lisätietoja)
Most are American but it includes German, British writers.
The book starts with Dorothy Parker and ends with Janet Malcolm.
Featured writers are Rebecca West, Mary McCarthy, Zora Neal’s Hurston, Hanna Arendt, Susan Sontag, Lillian Hellman, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion! Nora Ephrom, Renata Adler, Janet Malcolm
Interesting to discover what they endured for their craft. Some were successful, some not so much. Success came at a price: some were very lonely, ostracized, unhappily married or self isolated. Alcohol played a large role in their lives.… (lisätietoja)
Desconocía las biografías de muchas de las autoras y me servirá para profundizar en alguna bibliografía. No obstante, el libro adolece de más falta de relación entre ellas y lo he echado más en falta.
Nota aparte: esta traducción tiene varios errores que podrían haberse detectado muy fácilmente con la ayuda de algún corrector.
Nota aparte: esta traducción tiene varios errores que podrían haberse detectado muy fácilmente con la ayuda de algún corrector.
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