Women | Women
Mar.06.2009
They askAs one more pair of eyesStripPeel skinScrape fleshHammer at the bonesAnd pick up the dustTo spread like pollenBody parts sproutIn barren fieldsOf crumbling leavesAnd sun-dried hay
Look, look, they sayThis one was juicyLusciousThe curves bending just rightGiving a good fightTo make the war...
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Feb.21.2009
As an Expat Harem coeditor and producer, I'm pleased to share highlights of 2008 and recent days, as well as a few events to watch for in 2009. INTERVIEWED ON TVBecoming a go-to girl for providing the resident foreigner’s viewpoint on Turkish national television, this winter my coeditor Jennifer...
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Feb.16.2009
If one wanted to look at 1930s culture, a good way to start would be to watch two films:
1. Tim Robbins' The Cradle Will Rock is a fun account of the government's failed attempt to censor Mark Blitzstein's musical- everybody shows up in the film from Diego Rivera to Orson Wells to Rockerfeller...
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Feb.11.2009
A couple of years ago, a friend was on a business trip from Delhi and we decided to head out to Brighton for the weekend. Not, mind you, because Brighton was particularly attractive but because she had read about the place in all those old English romance novels. Then a couple of other friends -...
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Feb.06.2009
James Joyce was never a favorite writer of mine. I had to push myself to read all of "Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man," which was assigned in college; Irish Catholicism was totally foreign to me, and I had little understanding of its strength. I was, however, deeply moved by the...
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Feb.03.2009
I'm seriously thinking of writing another self-care book , this one focusing on weight. It 's tentatively called "From Weight to Wellness," and the basic idea is not to worry about weight but focus on living the healthiest, most positive life you can. It's very much my first book, "...
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Feb.03.2009
Mindhacks (http://www.mindhacks.com) had some amusing excerpts today from an short parody of Freud, imagining him as a woman, Phyllis Freud. Instead of penis envy, Phyllis posits womb envy as a central concept--to my mind a very reasonable concept, and makes the penis the inferior organ,...
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Jan.23.2009
I was in Quiznos the other day (the only place I go for what could be called “fast food”) and the owner, who is an acquaintance of mine, introduced me to a new employee and we got onto the subject of dating—don’t ask, you know how women talk in circles—and the woman expressed discouragement because...
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Jan.22.2009
Danish writer Christian Jungersen's 2nd novel "The Exception" was a bestseller in Europe and won a major Danish literary prize. Published in English in 2007, the novel uses a thriller format to investigagte the psychology of evil among Danes.
The novel focuses on four women who work...
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Jan.17.2009
Rachel Pastan's 2008 novel "Lady of the Snakes" has its heroine Jane Levitsky, a contemporary American woman who is trying to start a career as a literary researcher and university professor, raise a young child, and having a loving marriage. In the novel trying to be a professor,...
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