tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68387892011-06-08T02:30:28.164-04:00CupcakeSeries.comFrom 2003-2005, Cupcake presented readings by some of New York's best women writers. <br>This blog offered our take on the literary world, writers we love, and the evils of chick lit.<br>Cupcakenoreply@blogger.comBlogger6041100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1114550278040363092005-04-26T17:16:00.000-04:002005-04-26T17:17:58.040-04:00Goodbye From CupcakeDearest Cupcakes,We're sad to inform you that April was the final edition of Cupcake. In the nearly two years that the series existed, we were proud to have presented readings by some of New York's best women writers. The time has now come for each of us to move on to pursue other endeavors.We thank you for having made Cupcake one of the many reasons that people look to Cupcakenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1114184033836325252005-04-22T11:20:00.000-04:002005-04-22T11:40:11.586-04:00I am being kept quite busy working with so many talented clients and friends! Here's what going on this weekend. Hope you can join us!In tonight's special event, entitled "Southern Girls Do It Better!", Georgia native Tayari Jones - winner of the Hurston/Wright Award for Debut Fiction for "Leaving Atlanta" - reads from her new novel, THE UNTELLING (Warner Books, April 2005) with Texas-born, Lauren Cerandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17940491813228114694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1114007167141035772005-04-20T10:10:00.000-04:002005-04-20T10:31:06.843-04:00As you may recall, the coverage of last year's National Book Awards was rather shady and we were not amused. Much of the insult centered on the description of the five nominees as "parochial", attributed to National Book Awards Executive Director Harold Augenbraum. He recently emailed me to say that he was misquoted, and after I asked, said it would be fine to excerpt his original email:Every fewLauren Cerandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17940491813228114694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1113919364969621772005-04-19T10:02:00.000-04:002005-04-19T10:10:21.550-04:00As you know, I spend much of my time working with clients on literary publicity projects. Right now I'm really blessed to be working with two amazing women writers whose books, quite serendipitously, are both being officially released today: Quinn Dalton, author of Bulletproof Girl, and Tayari Jones, author of The Untelling.Quinn and Tayari both took part in a conversation, along with Carrie A. ALauren Cerandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17940491813228114694noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1113917859373241092005-04-19T09:35:00.000-04:002005-04-19T09:37:39.373-04:00A big Cupcake fan writes in:As a devotee of flavorpill (which has from time to time included the Cupcake reading series among its weekly “picks”), I decided to add, Boldtype (an e-mail newsletter published by flavorpill), to my already overflowing inbox. Boldtype is hyped as “an email-based book review based on a simple guiding philosophy: to cover every month 5-7 books worth reading. Like a Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1113577959277609362005-04-15T11:10:00.000-04:002005-04-15T11:14:35.290-04:00Must read this Times article on apalling sexism in academia. Check it out:At Harvard, for example, there are 149 men with tenure in the natural sciences and just 13 women. Cynthia Friend, the chairwoman of the chemistry department, remains the only woman who has ever received tenure in chemistry at Harvard.(By comparison, women have done better in the humanities departments at Harvard, where 39 Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1113494641231483732005-04-14T11:59:00.000-04:002005-04-14T12:19:16.590-04:00A big thank you to Rene Steinke and Paula Kamen for giving such fine performances last night--what a special Cupcake it was! These two are fabulous: do check out Paula's new book, ALL IN MY HEAD, and Rene's new novel, HOLY SKIRTS, asap. These writers have inspired a new venture (in my mind, for now, at least): the Cupcake Brain Trust. Both are writing such important parts of our history: Rene Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1113412026411976552005-04-13T13:06:00.000-04:002005-04-13T13:07:06.410-04:00Hey everybody--so we'll see you tonight at Lolita (266 Broome St. at Allen) at 7:30 pm for Rene Steinke and Paula Kamen--don't miss it. We can't wait to see you and say hi.xoElizabethElizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1113319317262149942005-04-12T11:14:00.000-04:002005-04-12T11:21:57.263-04:00Hey everybody--so much going on over here, I've been distant, forgive me. But one of our favorite Cupcake alums is on point, and she sent along this link last week from chandrasutra on the subject of how Wonkette has become the token woman blogger in mainstream media coverage of blogland. Must read. xoElizabethElizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1112815580862266072005-04-06T15:21:00.000-04:002005-04-06T15:26:20.863-04:00I just had a delicious little meeting of the minds with the always-inspiring Cupcakes Take the Cake folks--check it out if you're in the mood for ruminations on pastry and bourbon.xoElizabethElizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1112806683689132232005-04-06T12:54:00.000-04:002005-04-06T12:58:03.690-04:00And after you're done with your long lovely afternoon stroll, check out recent Cupcake Samantha Hunt tonight at BookCourt in Cobble Hill. If you missed her at Cupcake earlier this year, this is your chance! Details:163 Court St.Brooklyn, NY 11201(718) 875 36777pmF or G to Bergen StreetxoElizabethElizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1112806113838221612005-04-06T12:46:00.000-04:002005-04-06T12:48:33.840-04:00Who can blog with this much sun and gorgeousness? (Or this much email, but forget that for a minute and let's focus on the sun.) Take a sec though, and thank the governor of Illinois for protecting a woman's right to choose.xoElizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1112628473441475382005-04-04T11:01:00.000-04:002005-04-04T11:27:53.443-04:00Hi everybody--sorry it was such a slow blogging week last week over here, I have been really busy with my other various projects. I read at Barbes last Thursday, and had a fabulous time--thank you everyone who came out! It's just really so much fun to have a full room of friends together, I think I might have to have a party soon. Ned Vizzini, who runs the series over there, is wonderful and willElizabethnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111732020761672162005-03-28T00:45:00.000-05:002005-03-28T00:45:46.056-05:00The brilliant Sara Zuiderveen pointed me to Edward Champion's Return of Tannenhaus Watch, which again is pleasing me in quite the same way as these past few links people have been sending along: the discussion of the need for women writers in positions of authority seems to be building momentum. Edward is checking on the NYT Book Review, because some of us are so depressed by its gender stats Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111789782753503262005-03-25T17:27:00.000-05:002005-03-25T17:29:42.756-05:00Editors' note: Writer Paula Kamen will be guest-blogging here on Fridays in March.WELL, EVEN ULYSSES S. GRANT GETS HEADACHES!Speaking of the ups and downs of the author's endless pursuit of external validation, I was both entertained and aghast at a mention of my book in the NY Times today, in an article on the cover of the Weekend Arts section.The good news, they spelled my name right. And the Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111789610258059962005-03-25T17:25:00.000-05:002005-03-25T17:26:50.260-05:00Editors' note: Writer Paula Kamen will be guest-blogging here on Fridays in March.STARLET FEVERThis has nothing to do with literature, at least directly. For weeks now, I've been hooked on reality show The Starlet on the WB (making history as the first person over 30 to watch that channel), shown Tuesdays at 9 pm Eastern Time. A reason is that my friend's cousin Katie (the sunny blonde one from Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111789486328739082005-03-25T17:17:00.000-05:002005-03-25T17:24:46.330-05:00Editors' note: Writer Paula Kamen will be guest-blogging here on Fridays in March.In a Bipolar Author Disorder fashion, I will give a rambling and somewhat disconnected report of literary happenings of the past week in my world:--Speaking of Sick Lit, last week I met Christa Donner, the editor of the clever Chicago-based 'zine, Ladyfriend: For Ladies and their Friends. It addresses the Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111732805326589912005-03-25T01:30:00.000-05:002005-03-25T01:40:21.626-05:00Editors' note: Writer Paula Kamen will be guest-blogging here on Fridays in March.BIPOLAR AUTHOR DISORDER: NO CURE WANTEDI have been writing about the genre of "sick lit" very seriously so far, but I think I've been dwelling on it too much, because I'm now coming down with a brand new (surprisingly common yet undiscussed) disorder. I noticed it tonight when I bumped into another author in a cafe,Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111687995799481102005-03-24T13:02:00.000-05:002005-03-24T13:21:51.106-05:00Seattle poet, fiction writer, and editor Jenny Scott points us to this important article at Editor & Publisher, on why there aren't more women Op-Ed writers:Patrisia Gonzales, who co-writes a Universal Press Syndicate column with Roberto Rodriguez, said: "I hate to generalize about this, but here goes. ... Men make most of the decisions about who's hired as a columnist or who's accepted as havingCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111682002429426042005-03-24T11:32:00.000-05:002005-03-24T11:38:49.416-05:00So, as you may know, Bjork has this tendency to run around and say she's not a feminist. But check her out in the Observer (thanks Rachel for sending the link):'It's interesting for me to bring up a girl. You go to the toy store and the female characters there - Cinderella, the lady in Beauty and the Beast - their major task is to find Prince Charming. And I'm like, wait a minute - it's 2005! Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111647401977755582005-03-24T01:46:00.000-05:002005-03-24T01:56:41.980-05:00Well will you look at Lauren go? You should, because I'm fairly certain you'll be working for her one day soon. She is the best. Except that she fed me a really delicious actual cupcake at Sugar Sweet Sunshine this morning and then I was wearing mis-matched prints (from Target and TJMaxx respectively, though that was the least of the problems involved) and being a cranky bloodsugar lunatic on theCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111625815946228472005-03-23T19:15:00.000-05:002005-03-23T21:50:29.366-05:00Oooh what a full dance card I've had this week! Je regret not checking in with you more frequently, but between the usual hot dates and lots of work for some freelance clients with hotly-anticipated new fiction coming out in about a minute, I haven't had as much time as one might to prefer to blog the revolution lately.Enjoyed a lovely lunch with Kevin Smokler on Monday (look for his intriguing Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111378785017383002005-03-22T17:10:00.000-05:002005-03-22T21:32:55.316-05:00HOT DATE: TONIGHT!"Under Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in AmericaTuesday, March 22, 20057PM @ Bluestockings, 172 Allen Street (Between Stanton and Rivington), 212.777.6028, FREEUnder Her Skin: How Girls Experience Race in America is an anthology of essays by women that explore through a child's lens the sometimes savage, sometimes innocent, and always complex, ways in which race shapes Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111388305815435212005-03-21T01:35:00.000-05:002005-03-21T04:22:01.976-05:00This review of our recent Cupcake reading with Megan Kelso and Ariel Bordeaux is so kick ass! And *dude*, you are not becoming a sissy. I get that there's this thing about digging a feminist reading series, but there are a quite a few men doing just that at Cupcake every month. Besides, that guy in the womens' studies classes -- he's kind of figured it out, right? Because last time I checked, Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111381946698932572005-03-21T00:05:00.000-05:002005-03-21T00:12:39.480-05:00I LOVE the sound of SMUT, the new weekly series at Galapagos, and they are hungry for smart, sexy submissions:HIGH-RISK READING AND PERFORMANCE SERIES AT GALAPAGOS IN WILLIAMSBURG: SUBMISSIONS: SMUT is currently accepting submissions appx. 15 minutes in length from writers and performers.Appropriate smutty material might include:- Readings (read by authors or performed by actors)- Performance ArtCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111377160047535052005-03-21T00:03:00.000-05:002005-03-22T01:10:10.320-05:00So yes, it's Monday: time for a memo on the Satanists. No?LA writer-to-watch Shana Ting Lipton on a certain variety of the dark aspects of the DNA of Southern California. xoEliz.Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111377193382074912005-03-20T22:52:00.000-05:002005-03-20T22:53:13.383-05:00I feel so very lucky to have Paula guest-blogging here on Fridays. What a treat. Thank you Paula!xoElizabethCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111180342084775152005-03-18T16:05:00.000-05:002005-03-19T12:17:35.976-05:00Editors' note: Writer Paula Kamen will be guest-blogging here on Fridays in March.I WAS A TEENAGE FEMINISTCongrats to Brooklynite Therese Shechter for the successful TV debut of her film, "I Was a Teenage Feminist" -- on Canadian television last week, re-airing on April 5 and 10. "If you missed the revolution, filmmaker Therese Shechter's I Was A Teenage Feminist is a refresher course in FeminismCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111173698168823012005-03-18T14:15:00.000-05:002005-03-18T14:21:38.176-05:00Editors' note: Writer Paula Kamen will be guest-blogging here on Fridays in March.SICK LIT OFFERINGS FOR EVERY POSSIBLE DEVIANCE AND DYSFUNCTION:In doing this work over the past few years, I've come across some amazing and very helpful books on this topic that are often off radar -- all dealing with the theme of what I call "tired girls," or women with invisible disabilities. Here are some Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111129831324433052005-03-18T02:05:00.000-05:002005-03-18T02:10:31.326-05:00Editors' note: Writer Paula Kamen will be guest-blogging here on Fridays in March.MORE ON SICK LIT: JESUS SAVE ME (FROM MY HEADACHES)As I wrote on March 3 (where I delivered my Sick Lit Manifesto), I'm on a mission to frame "sick lit" as a feminist issue. That means to look at how chronic pain and fatigue hit women more -- and critically examine why they are so stigmatized. As a way to fight backCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111139014920768202005-03-17T19:45:00.000-05:002005-03-18T04:44:50.133-05:00This photo that our pal liberation took of the divine ms. love a year ago is worth about a thousand words right now...Happy almost-weekend, cupcakes!xoxo,LaurenCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111099308345976382005-03-17T17:34:00.000-05:002005-03-17T17:41:48.350-05:00Katha Pollitt has a great piece in The Nation on the dearth of women opinion writers in the media, and Editor & Publisher offers an analytical look at the issue from the business side. -LaurenCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111016243202167332005-03-16T18:27:00.000-05:002005-03-16T18:37:23.203-05:00Hey everybody. I miss you so much I'm blogging from the Fort Myers airport. I had a gorgeous vaca, thank you very much, and even this little flight delay isn't making me too grumpy. Itunes fixes a lot. Itunes and chocolate. Also, last night I ate in a restaurant that had its own dry ice machine. I'm wondering how my landlord would feel about one of those in my living room? A good excuse for a Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111015052829617512005-03-16T18:07:00.000-05:002005-03-17T13:12:21.513-05:00Mark your calendars for an absolutely unmissable event, as the currently ultra en fuego Jami Attenberg reads at Barbes tomorrow night: Thursday, March 17 @ 7PM, FREE, with Ayun Halliday and E. Lockhart. Hosted by Jackie Corley and Nicole Hughes. Sounds divine!xoxo,LaurenCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1111005040042155352005-03-16T15:29:00.000-05:002005-03-16T15:30:40.043-05:00EVENT: THE LOWER EASTSIDE GIRLS CLUB opening of "CHARMED" at The Lower Eastside Girls Club Art+Community GalleryThursday, March 17th 5-8pmCharmed is a group exhibition of diverse women artists at the Art+Community Gallery at the Lower Eastside Girls Club, 56 East 1st Street between First and Second Avenues.Charmed is curated by Michael St. John and Jason Duval with the participation of The Lower Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1110996728196537292005-03-16T12:57:00.000-05:002005-03-16T15:33:56.896-05:00I just got back from a few days in Los Angeles, and as you can imagine, I am feeling a little overwhelmed by the detritus of the information age of the moment (and thinking creative strategies, like this one, are the way to go). I had a wonderful time and saw lots of fabulous people, including Mark Sarvas of The Elegant Variation, who I met in person (finally!). I was killing time in the airport Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1110691484988957112005-03-13T00:21:00.000-05:002005-03-13T03:26:48.446-05:00I knew I was in for a bit of a moment when I saw the link on the Times online: Dish It Out, LadiesMaureen Dowd, what a Cupcake: While a man writing a column taking on the powerful may be seen as authoritative, a woman doing the same thing may be seen as castrating. If a man writes a scathing piece about men in power, it's seen as his job; a woman can be cast as an emasculating man-hater. I'm Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1110560323762415312005-03-11T14:33:00.000-05:002005-03-11T14:34:23.833-05:00Editors' note: Writer Paula Kamen will be guest-blogging here on Fridays in March.IRIS CHANG (1968-2004)By Paula KamenSpeaking of tackling unpleasant subjects and shunning stigmas, I wanted to announce a Chicago memorial this Saturday for my college friend Iris Chang, who committed suicide last November in San Jose at the age of 36. She was the bestselling author of the eye-opening ">The Rape ofCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1110560274516441352005-03-11T12:51:00.000-05:002005-03-11T13:46:11.196-05:00Editors' note: Writer Paula Kamen will be guest-blogging here on Fridays in March.LITERARY MAMABy Paula KamenAnother follow up to last week's blog about women coming out about "weakness" -- which I think is the last taboo to write about. I got an interesting email from Philadelphia-based writer Andi Buchanan, the author of the memoir Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It (Seal Press, Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1110555976026693402005-03-11T10:44:00.000-05:002005-03-11T10:55:01.433-05:00Editors' note: Writer Paula Kamen will be guest-blogging here on Fridays in March.HERETIC IN THE AMERICAN GIRL CATHEDRALBy Paula KamenFirst, I want to follow up on last Friday's blogging. With true genius and dexterity, this entry bridges the gap between my reading in April and the March Cupcake program. I forgot to mention another feminist-oriented Chicago authoress I came across at my reading Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1110515962471937902005-03-10T14:38:00.000-05:002005-03-10T23:39:22.473-05:00What a gorgeous Cupcake we had with Megan Kelso and Ariel Bordeaux last night. Just exquisite. Megan introduced us to her world of artichoke people--amazing slides of her work backed up by a perfect soundtrack of Sigur Ros. Ariel brought us to Maple Valley, where a sweet little old lady may or may not have burnt down a library--quite a mystery!Next month: April 13, featuring Rene Steinke, author Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1110404612109597402005-03-09T16:41:00.000-05:002005-03-09T16:43:32.110-05:00Fred Durst loves Gawker, and Gawker loves Cupcake....We definitely come out ahead on that one.See you tonight!XOXO,LaurenCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1110404402147756802005-03-09T16:30:00.000-05:002005-03-09T16:40:02.150-05:00BITCH BETTER GET ME SOMETHING GOODOooh, and it will! Check out this online sale:Lovely friends, Just a reminder that our first-ever online auction is live! Check it out at http://stores.ebay.com/Bitch-MagazineYou'll find beautiful art from Lynda Barry, Alison Bechdel, Rebecca McBride, Hugh D'Andrade, our very own Andi Zeisler, and other amazingly talented folks. And signed books, posters, singlesCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1110307652785234072005-03-08T13:46:00.000-05:002005-03-08T13:47:32.786-05:00Perfectly succinct and I couldn't have said it better myself: thank you, Jessa!xo,LaurenCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1110302371298604562005-03-08T12:14:00.000-05:002005-03-08T12:19:31.300-05:00So how are excited are we for tomorrow night's installment of la vida Cupcake, which has been shortlisted all over the place? So very:FUNNY PAGES The Cupcake series of readings by women tonight features two graphic novelists, whose work will be projected while being read. Megan Kelso's mid-90's comic book "Girlhero" was a sassy feminist treatise; for the last few years, she's been serializing a Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1110290755903000232005-03-08T08:55:00.000-05:002005-03-08T09:05:55.906-05:00HOT TOPICSStanford's New "B" as in Boy School [via Jen Bekman's excellent UnBeige]The New York Times Magazine: Questions for Martha Burk -- "Women's Work"Pippi Longstocking: Swedish rebel and feminist role model-LaurenCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109996566470081172005-03-04T23:15:00.000-05:002005-03-04T23:22:46.473-05:00Editors' note: Paula Kamen will be guest-blogging at the Cupcake blog on Fridays this month.By Paula Kamen:CHICAGO BOOKSSo, the reading for my book All in My Head at Women & Children First Bookstore in Chicago and the party afterward did go very well last night. At least measured in volumes of food consumed. The restaurant owner commented he had never seen such a ravenous crowd attack a buffet Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109996206923716942005-03-04T23:10:00.000-05:002005-03-04T23:16:46.926-05:00Editors' note: Paula Kamen will be guest-blogging at the Cupcake blog on Fridays this month.By Paula Kamen:On a lighter note....I've been getting a lot of questions about alternative medicine, which I think can be very helpful. I definitely use massage, yoga and acupuncture to "take the edge off" pain (although they have not been "cure alls" for me, as would be expected for someone with constant Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109996002211513362005-03-04T23:05:00.000-05:002005-03-06T01:22:58.140-05:00Editors' note: Paula Kamen will be guest-blogging at the Cupcake blog on Fridays this month.A 'SICK LIT' MANIFESTO"I am woman, hear me kvetch."By Paula KamenFirst, as your guest cupcake blogger during Fridays in March, let me state my objectives here as plainly as possible. No hidden agendas. Only unabashedly open agendas.As you might expect, during my time here, I hope to serve as a Chicago Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109916082746736472005-03-04T09:15:00.000-05:002005-03-04T09:39:55.056-05:00A few of my favorite things: Sara Z on Bjork and Gloria Steinem and Tori and PJ Harvey and thinking about why it's still so weirdly threatening to use the word feminist. Do check it out.xoElizabethCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109910348893680212005-03-03T23:11:00.000-05:002005-03-03T23:33:17.516-05:00MAKE A PASS ON THIS ONE:I was downtown this evening and stopped in at Bluestockings to browse, where I came across Hey, 4-Eyes!, which is basically my favorite zine ever and I have an absolutely crazy crush on it. There isn't any content available online, but here's an idea: Articles about glasses, essays about glasses, comics about glasses. The most wonderful cultural ephemera related to Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109830246724463762005-03-03T01:10:00.000-05:002005-03-03T01:10:46.726-05:00"Some creative fellas talk about the female artists who have most influenced their work," at Venus.Kyle Fischer Guitarist and vocalist, Rainer MariaThat's easy: Edna St. Vincent Millay. I found a copy of her amazing book Fatal Interview while I was writing my second record, Black Milk (forthcoming). I was completely riveted by the way she conflated metaphors of love and death. It was having Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109829942618708842005-03-03T01:05:00.000-05:002005-03-03T01:06:15.850-05:00As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I am so excited to read Rene Steinke's Holy Skirts. It's reviewed in the current issue of The Believer: Fortunately, and perhaps in spite of these generic challenges, where Holy Skirts succeeds most brilliantly (and most truthfully) is in its evocation of the evolution of an artistic self. Elsa’s journey is so clearly rooted in her “wanting to pay closer Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109829526540510882005-03-03T00:47:00.000-05:002005-03-03T01:41:30.713-05:00Every time I go to Maryland, my mother, who manages a day spa, gives me half a dozen magazines to read on the trip back to New York. It seems that magazines, eager to get in front of the consumption-oriented eyes of her manicure-drying audience, just get sent to the spa en masse. My mother, being a nice Southern lady, rejects quite a number of them on the basis of what she perceives to be their Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109794491725250252005-03-02T14:56:00.000-05:002005-03-02T16:21:24.096-05:00Hey everybody, it's Elizabeth here. I know I've been sort of a bad blogger lately--I've been doing all sorts of tedious things with the very end stages of getting my book to the printer. It's really exciting, but it's sad too--I was emotional all weekend and couldn't figure out why. People keep telling me it's because it's like giving birth--but honestly, that magic with this book was many years Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109734810951228762005-03-01T22:30:00.000-05:002005-03-01T22:48:27.770-05:00I know that many of you are members of the Emerging Writers Network, but if you're not, do consider signing up! It's a totally free service provided by the dedicated Dan Wickett and you can get the warm fuzzies from being part of a wonderful community of talented folks (and scoops on writers-to-watch). I found the latest email to be so valuable and full of insight that I'm pasting it in full hereCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109704068885345382005-03-01T13:58:00.000-05:002005-03-01T14:07:48.886-05:00Currently reading: From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers. Noted:Fairy tale offers a case where the very contempt for women opened an opportunity for them to exercise their wit and communicate their ideas: women's care for children, the prevailing disregard for both groups, and their presumed identity with the simple folk, the common people, handed them fairy tales as a Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109703338769166352005-03-01T13:45:00.000-05:002005-03-01T13:55:38.773-05:00For all of you media-obsessed NYC Cupcakes, I highly recommend Ellen Gallagher's DeLuxe show at the Whitney. Tons more information is right here. Noted: "This work is so complex that it will take a few years for a lot of printmaking to catch up with it," said David Kiehl, the print curator at the Whitney, which reserved the first copy of the work. "Ellen has something to say, and how she is Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109702354862589242005-03-01T13:33:00.000-05:002005-03-01T13:39:14.866-05:00We are always talking about how fewer women get bylines in the upper eschelons of American arts and letters, but at some point the analysis has to advance far beyond that, and to really parse apart what that actually means. I don't necessarily have the answers, but one of the things that I'm interested in at the moment is the idea of a feminist approach to economics (which, I'd like to note, I Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109557680964676502005-02-28T11:17:00.000-05:002005-02-28T11:25:03.963-05:00I'm not really an Oscars kind of a girl, but you know, neither is Chris Rock. I turned it on briefly to a pre-recorded bit where he went down to the Magic Johnson theatres to talk to some black folks, none of whom had seen too many of the very white films nominated.Many of whom loved White Chicks however.Chris Rock and Dave Chapelle are such role models for us here at Cupcake: they're totally Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109560234605273782005-02-27T22:03:00.000-05:002005-02-27T22:10:34.606-05:00What a gorgeous time we had at Cupcake on Friday. Katherine Lanpher and Ann Powers were stellar, the crowd was my favorite New York crowd as always. I've been watching Ann's career for so long. When I was in graduate school in the late nineties and all this Cupcake stuff-- the lack of women published as serious writers--was becoming all too painfully apparent to me, I would get such a boost from Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109527716653175802005-02-27T13:05:00.000-05:002005-02-27T13:08:36.656-05:00Don't miss CJR Daily's interview with Susan Estrich. Noted:I don't think discrimination is conscious, but that makes it even harder to deal with. I don't think anybody sits down and says, we hate women here. But they call their friends, print whom they like, whom they know, who's been around. It takes a conscious effort to make change. I remember once asking a panel of men at a news business Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109453966537145002005-02-26T16:10:00.000-05:002005-02-26T16:42:34.516-05:00The 40 or so of you that came out last night to hear Ann Powers discuss her work, and her life, and her approach to music criticism in conversation with the stunning journalist Katherine Lanpher (note to Katherine: we are all absolutely dying for you to start a book show on the radio in NYC! Pretty pretty please!) , are very lucky creatures indeed. It was definitely a Cupcake special event by Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109306175028914232005-02-24T23:30:00.000-05:002005-02-24T23:39:18.506-05:00What, does Michael Kinsley work at the History Channel now, too? Is Lawrence Summers moonlighting as a PA these days?-LaurenCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109216599778757742005-02-23T22:37:00.000-05:002005-02-23T22:43:19.780-05:00Essential Cupcake Ingredient of the Week: AntibioticsWe're both sick! Lauren and I are both fighting this crazy flu that is going around. I'm coming out of mine (it involved a weekend of codiene for all the hacking and hacking), so maybe I'll come up with a bit more for you tomorrow. For now: Our Friday event with Ann Powers and Katherine Lanpher got listed in the New Yorker (minus any mention ofCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109128704618590342005-02-22T22:15:00.000-05:002005-02-22T22:22:04.313-05:00The latest edition of the Smart Set is up. Noteworthy: On Wednesday, Maxine Swann (Serious Girls) and One Story editor Hannah Tinti (Animal Crackers) read at Open City's series at KGB. 7:00pm, FREE. You know they're both amazing, if you were at Cupcake this month (Maxine) or October '03 (Hannah)... Also note: Cupcake is Friday, featuring a special event avec Ann Powers. -LaurenCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109117888051924012005-02-22T19:13:00.000-05:002005-02-22T19:18:08.053-05:00Thank you to Jenny Davidson for pointing out the error of my [now deleted] Slate post this afternoon, which I interpreted at face value. I usually find that column tedious, if I read it all, and was shocked -- amazed - that it was culturally relevant and seemingly dead-on for once. But duh, I missed the sarcasm. Besides, I really am over that whole irony thing. No snaps for you, Jack Shafer!xoxo,Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109047933245451972005-02-22T11:50:00.000-05:002005-02-22T14:43:28.050-05:00I am so pleased to let you know that for the month of March, upcoming Cupcake Paula Kamen will be guest blogging here on Fridays. She's a pistol, watch out for this one. I met her at a writers colony in 2001 and have been really enjoying getting to know her voice since then. You must check out her books. The next one, All in My Head, is out soon, and looks great. So does her sprightly new websiteCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1109032887852587332005-02-21T19:35:00.000-05:002005-02-21T19:50:59.446-05:00Our lovely Cupcake alum Danyel Smith (author of the new novel Bliss forthcoming from Crown in July 2005) writes in with an update and some viewing suggestions:Hey all,Herewith my longish, shameless plug for the ego trip VH1 series. First night is Feb. 21 [tonight!]Check the link for:"Dude, Where's My Ghetto Pass?"Monday Feb. 21 9/8c PM "Blackaphobia"Tuesday Feb. 22 9/8c PM"In Race We Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1108756680750181812005-02-18T14:49:00.000-05:002005-02-18T15:27:11.420-05:00HELL YES IT'S TIME FOR CAPITAL LETTERS:THE BIGGER, THE BOLDER, THE BETTERFrom Howard Kurtz's Media Notes Extra column, entitled Valentine's Day Arrow," at WashingtonPost.com:First, let me say that our country needs more women pundits. I've never quite understood why--unlike, say, boxing--it's a male-dominated field. Quick, how many female newspaper columnists can you name other than Maureen DowdCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1108747420842562492005-02-18T12:15:00.000-05:002005-02-18T12:23:40.843-05:00Whew! Standard Deviance eviscerates Lawrence Summers, so I don't have to today. Thanks, Ellen! [and thanks to Nichelle for bringing it to our attention]-LaurenCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1108746413351572762005-02-18T12:02:00.000-05:002005-02-18T12:08:48.426-05:00The really quite sublime literary blog called Rake's Progress points us to the also rather sublime Lannan Foundation's online audio of a recent reading & conversation by Lousie Erdrich, with book critic Gail Caldwell. Do check it out.-LaurenCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1108743691788701222005-02-18T10:51:00.001-05:002005-02-18T11:33:57.323-05:00I love the interviews at Gothamist.com -- although at times comically uneven from week to week, they are definitely the best feature of the site. As I read the interview with Danyel Smith yesterday -- which in addition to being thoroughly enjoyable, was fabulous because she's a Cupcake (May '04) -- it got me to reminiscing about all the Cupcakes who have been interviewed there (and there have Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1108595752681835932005-02-17T13:10:00.000-05:002005-02-18T07:14:15.116-05:00We love all the great stuff that is happening at 826NYC. What an inspiration they are. Tonight especially: join Cupcake alums Hannah Tinti and Monique Truong (along with Jonathan Lethem and moderator Dave Eggers) for a panel: Writing and Publishing the Novel. (Monique and Hannah aren't mentioned on the 826 website but Monique emailed to let us know they'd both be there).Check it out: a 3-hour Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1108580295930007472005-02-16T14:29:00.000-05:002005-02-16T14:29:40.833-05:00The best way to get me to do anything around the house is to put on This American Life and tell me to wash a dish. I'm in a way anti-domestic phase (ask me and I will tell you how to screw up making a salad) but This American Life will work. Mulling over this now: the folks at This American Life are very Cupcake: they famously work their asses off, and freelancers I know who have submitted are inCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1108483789969093432005-02-16T14:01:00.000-05:002005-02-16T14:02:18.710-05:00Highly recommended friend of a dear friend of Cupcake, Mike Daisey, has a new show about Nikola Tesla, a man who has piqued the Cupcakes' interest this month since Samantha Hunt told us all about him during her interview with Katherine Lanpher after her reading on 2/9. Here's the scoop:In his newest monologue, Mike Daisey explores the warped genius of inventor Nikola Tesla and his war with ThomasCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1108483423336734252005-02-15T10:55:00.000-05:002005-02-15T11:06:18.243-05:00APRIL FOOL'S DAY COMES EARLY THIS YEAR:Who on earth would sweat a guy that writes for McSweeney's? I suppose people do, e.g.I was obsessed because he, and McSweeney's itself, had rejected TV-cool, punk-cool, grunge-cool and all other cools to date, and had concocted their own brand. They were emotionless as greasers, jovially homoerotic as beatniks, but smart-assy as old Hollywood stars and at Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1108394037425087802005-02-14T10:10:00.000-05:002005-02-14T11:02:23.956-05:00When I was in San Francisco last month, I gathered my nearest and dearest of the west for dinner, and I felt like I was backstroking in gold dust (I know I keep saying this, bear with me) because I have had such great friends in so many places over the years. What really struck me, at this meal, was that I could just sort of sit back quietly and they all kept saying funny sweet things, for hours.Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1108325432933433462005-02-13T15:05:00.000-05:002005-02-13T15:10:32.933-05:00HOW ABOUT A CUPCAKE FOR YOUR VALENTINE?XOXOLAURENCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1108145779390472472005-02-11T13:05:00.000-05:002005-02-11T13:16:19.393-05:00Bees, we have been so busy whipping up magical events for you, to be enjoyed both in the near and slightly distant future, that we haven't been posting as prolifically as one might like.I'm afraid that I'm on my way out the door again, but I do want to draw your attention to some fun in the city for you New York Cupcakes:FRIDAY, 2.11: "ROOM creates a space for us all to inhabit. Wynne Greenwood Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1108078559318834172005-02-10T18:33:00.000-05:002005-02-10T18:35:59.316-05:00Sara wants to dump the New Yorker too. Well she has even better reason to do so than I do. But it's sort of a club--he better watch out, this young man, Mr. New Yorker. He should know by now what trouble he can get into if all the girls he jilts join forces. . . .
xo
ElizabethCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1108047339957004262005-02-10T09:51:00.000-05:002005-02-10T09:55:39.956-05:00Thank you to Maxine, Samantha, and Katherine, and the capacity crowd that came out to join us for an absolutely brilliant reading last night! Katherine led an incredible discussion following M. and S.'s mesmerizing readings, focusing on the way that both Serious Girls and The Seas explore the idea of transformation. It was all very marvelous.
Our next Cupcake is on Friday, Feb 25: Rock critic Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1107929109736079352005-02-09T00:59:00.000-05:002005-02-09T01:07:47.816-05:00Cupcake, featuring novelists Maxine Swann and Samantha Hunt, and a post-reading discussion moderated by journalist Katherine Lanpher, is tonight! Details are just a click away at Cupcake HQ.
-Lauren
Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1107836948706225502005-02-08T11:12:00.000-05:002005-02-08T11:15:19.290-05:00Do you need a little love from Jeanette Winterson? Do you? I know you do baby. Here you go:I am sunk up to my eyebrows in my new book for kids. It is all I want to do, but the emails keep pouring in, and the admin, and the notes from accountants and tax inspectors and busy people in offices who are paid to waste everyone`s time.
People sometimes say I am really organised and I seem to make life Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1107834807208365202005-02-07T22:50:00.000-05:002005-02-07T22:55:47.096-05:00Sara at A Little More Life calls the New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl out on how not hot he is, going around talking shit about Rubens's nudes.
What a Cupcake! (Sara, not Schjeldahl).
xo
Elizabeth
Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1107791540684252772005-02-07T10:49:00.000-05:002005-02-07T10:52:20.686-05:00The Bluestockings reading on Friday was so much fun, thank you everybody for coming out, and Lauren for doing such an amazing job organizing and promoting it all in about a week's time. Quinn Dalton: keep your eyes on this one, very talented. I can't wait to read Bulletproof Girl.
In the meantime: Maud, that Cupcake, goes off on the New Yorker and on its shameless association with and promotion Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1107680628565793282005-02-06T01:50:00.000-05:002005-02-06T04:06:01.946-05:00A thousand sparkling pixie-dusted thanks you to all you fabulous boosters who came out for Elizabeth's first NYC reading of Girly at Bluestockings on Friday. With 50+ people in attendance, the place was at capacity! She and fellow reader Quinn were predictably luminous and amazing, and Beatrice has the full scoop.
Elizabeth's next scheduled reading from Girly is on March 31st as part of the Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1107378615956083392005-02-02T16:00:00.000-05:002005-02-02T16:16:22.200-05:00HOT OFF THE PRESS
From the gorgeously revamped listings section in this week's print edition of the New York Press:Bluestockings
172 Allen St. (Betw. Stanton & Rivington Sts.)
212-777-6028
"Spring Forward: Women on the Verge": Like her "quietly moving" (Booklist) debut novel High Strung, North Carolina-based author Quinn Dalton's new story collection, Bulletproof Girl, centers around alienated Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1107207028011024102005-02-01T14:25:00.000-05:002005-02-01T15:12:34.690-05:00Maybe it's the perfect winter sun, maybe it's that I'm back in my little office in Nolita and played hooky for 15 minutes to Lunettes et Chocolat, but I somehow managed to sit down and actually check out the New Yorker. Usually, I just read Sasha (who is in fine form this issue. I am so happy that the New Yorker lets him do things like have a one-word sentence the contents of which is this: "BabeCupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1107142515827697052005-01-31T15:26:00.000-05:002005-01-31T15:29:36.716-05:00Hello everybody, I'm back from San Francisco. You know, I am a deeply east coast girl, stewed in Chester County, Pennsylvania (for details of this place, check out Kate Walbert's Our Kind, which is set in my hometown) and a boarding school trial by fire, etc, but I lived in San Francisco for a long time, it was a really magical exploration for me in my twenties.
Not just the pretty precious Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1107155149838166702005-01-31T01:45:00.000-05:002005-01-31T02:14:16.260-05:00Good morning cupcakes!
Not much for you here at the mo', I'm afraid. I had a few things in mind, but you'll have to console yourselves with the latest edition of the Smart Set for now, up at MaudNewton.com at 12:30pm. I'll try to post later on if I have time, but this week is going to be hella hectic for me -- although it fortunately features a sweet payoff at the end, with our own Elizabeth's Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1106957705483567492005-01-28T19:15:00.000-05:002005-01-28T21:48:41.400-05:00I am working on a longer piece about the use of cupcakes as metaphor in conceptual art, but I'll have to put that up later this weekend as I am too busy to devote the necessary time to that examination at the moment.
Today, I popped into Bluestockings, stopped by Lolita (best bar ever, as you know), hit The Mud Truck, and breezed by a few other places in the course of running errands.
One new Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1106883243468059062005-01-27T22:30:00.000-05:002005-01-27T22:34:03.466-05:00SOMEHOW I DON'T THINK ADAM GOPNIK WORRIES ABOUT ONE DAY BECOMING A BAG LADY
Noted:Witty, stylish, and beautiful, Maeve Brennan dazzled everyone who met her. Born in Dublin, she came to the U.S. with her father, Ireland's first Ambassador to America, and in her early thirties joined The New Yorker, where she was at the heart of the life of the magazine until she was nearly sixty. Under the Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1106768131951079582005-01-27T00:05:00.000-05:002005-01-26T23:34:53.016-05:00Defying the Hollywood-brand artificial sweetener that fuels Sundance dazzle and Oscar fever, Lisa Rosman lays it out for her readers at the Broad View:Ladies and the men who attend to us, I have seen the future, and it's all about deleting every storyline and character development out of that novel called your face if you can afford it.From her marvelously spot-on post, "Manohla Testifies and So Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1106767673061678332005-01-26T23:30:00.000-05:002005-01-26T23:22:35.076-05:00CAAF, of Tingle Alley, raises an elegant eyebrow at the National Book Critics Circle award nominations:It’s a nice slate of fiction nominees: Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker; Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty; David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas; Marilynne Robinson, Gilead; and Philip Roth, The Plot Against America. But in discussing these nominees, can we have a moratorium on retroactive bashing Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1106767801017193622005-01-26T23:15:00.000-05:002005-01-26T23:37:50.493-05:00Pitchaya Sudbanthud (whose excellent Konundrum Engine Literary Review is always looking for women writers to contribute stories, you know...) has a superlative article on local, indie, women-owned used bookseller Freebird Books (which has a stellar reading series of its own, where I first heard February Cupcake Maxine Swann read last summer). Noted:Back in the summer of 2003, Rachel and Samantha Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1106763969470427342005-01-26T13:30:00.000-05:002005-01-26T13:28:14.733-05:00Reader Joanna Goddard, who is an editor at Topic magazine, writes in to say:i read your piece on the lack of female new yorker writers, which was great--and thankfully, i think the magazine is now finally getting a little more female representation.
however....i wanted to email you because i found one of the articles last week ("Funny Boys" by Rebecca Mead) to be sexist and offensive. the Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1106709120041892052005-01-25T22:02:00.000-05:002005-01-25T22:16:11.050-05:00Hey everybody. I'm on the west coast all week having myself a time, (did you forget I have that other little blog?). Folks here are very excited to hear about Cupcake and our big endeavors for spring, and the new indie venture I'm starting, Demimonde Books, but I'm almost too happy looking at the trees and breathing the clean air and NOT WEARING A JACKET to talk about it all unless pressed.
I Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1106628368510544922005-01-25T00:05:00.000-05:002005-01-24T23:57:36.206-05:00Mabel Segun (Surrender and Other Stories)has some interesting things to say about feminism and the literary scene in her native Nigeria:He said, "why don't you approach one of the female writers to do an article on you," as if women writers have to be written on by women themselves. I told him that, he sounded unreasonable, whether that was how it is done abroad. "Men can not review a woman's Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6838789.post-1106553447759896222005-01-24T01:45:00.000-05:002005-01-24T03:42:12.156-05:00Today I started reading What We Do Now - the Melville House post-election "instant book" that includes a contribution by Maud Newton (June '04) on tax code - and found myself absolutely transfixed. I read at least 80% of it on a single subway ride between 96th Street and SoHo, and each essay got me more fired up than the last.
Having worked for a number of labor unions and nonprofit Cupcakenoreply@blogger.com0