In the Media: May 2017

In the media is a fortnightly round-up of features written by, about or containing female writers that have appeared during the previous fortnight and I think are insightful, interesting and/or thought provoking. Linking to them is not necessarily a sign that I agree with everything that’s said but it’s definitely an indication that they’ve made me think. I’m using the term ‘media’ to include social media, so links to blog posts as well as as traditional media are likely and the categories used are a guide, not definitives.

In prize news, the Granta Best of Young American Novelists list was announced:

• Laura Miller, ‘Granta Made Us Obsessed With “Best Young Novelist” Lists‘ on Slate
• Michelle Dean, ‘The age of anxiety: what does Granta’s best young authors list say about America?‘ in The Guardian

Fiona McFarlane took The Dylan Thomas Prize for her short story collection The High Places, Maylis de Kerangal won The Wellcome Book Prize, and Sarah Perry and Kiran Millwood-Hargrave were winners at The British Book Awards. While Kit de Waal and Rowan Hisayo Buchanan were shortlisted for The Desmond Elliott Prize.

Chris Kraus and I Love Dick are having a moment:

• Kraus is interviewed in The Guardian and on Hazlitt with Sarah Gubbins
• Rachel Syme, ‘The Liberating Obsessiveness of I Love Dick‘ in New Republic
• I don’t usually link to book reviews but ‘Reviewing this book put me off marriage. And book reviewing‘ by Anakana Schofield is a brilliant piece of writing in its own right and is about Kraus’ novel Torpor.

And The Handmaid’s Tale has generated even more pieces:

• haettinger, ‘I Grew Up In A Fundamentalist Cult — ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Was My Reality‘ on The Establishment
• Megan Garber, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale Treats Guilt as an Epidemic‘ on The Atlantic
• Priya Nair, ‘Get out of Gilead: Anti-Blackness in The Handmaid’s Tale‘ on Bitch Media
• Kayla Chadwick, ‘The Biggest Lesson Of The Handmaid’s Tale? Silence Is Complicity.‘ on the Huffington Post
• Nora Caplan-Bricker, ‘One Sly Lesson of The Handmaid’s Tale:Appreciate the Messy Feminism We Have Now‘ on Slate
• Elizabeth Day, ‘What the Handmaid’s Tale taught me about being a woman‘ on The Pool
• Laura Hudson, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale: The Biggest Changes From the Book‘ on Slate
• Alexandra Schwartz, ‘Yes, “The Handmaid’s Tale” Is Femininst‘ in The New Yorker
• Soraya Nadia McDonald, ‘In “Handmaid’s Tale” a postracial, patriarchal hellscape‘ on The Undefeated
• Various, ‘“Margaret Atwood Made a Feminist Out of Me”: 12 Authors on The Handmaid’s Tale‘ in Elle
• Stacey D’Erasmo, ‘On Power Between Women: The Handmaid’s Tale Revisited‘ on Catapult
• Jamie Lincoln, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale: The Hidden Meaning in Those Eerie Costumes‘ on Vanity Fair

The best of the rest:

On or about books/writers/language:

• Emily Gould, ‘My Bad Parenting Advice Addiction‘ on Longreads
• Jenny Landreth, ‘Water Women: Jenny Landreth’s Swell and the Female Swimmers Who Changed the World‘ on the Waterstones’ blog
• Heather Corcoran, ‘One thing Amazon got wrong about “I Love Dick” (and women)‘ on Slate
• Judith Newman, ‘Dear Book Club: It’s You, Not Me‘ in The New York Times
• Susanna Basso (translated by Matilda Colarossi) ‘Lessons in Slowness‘ on Asymptote
• Rafia Zakaria, ‘The Lizzie Borden murder industry won’t die – but its feminism has‘ in The Guardian
• Elizabeth Alsop, ‘What Ferrante learned from Woolf‘ in The TLS
• Caren Lissner, ‘That Time a Guy Asked Me to Channel My Novel’s Protagonist On Our Creepy First Date‘ on Narratively
• Barbara Browning, ‘The Lie in My Novel‘ on Catapult
• Sarah Menkedick, ‘The Blue Jay’s Dance‘ in The Paris Review
• Sarah Menkedick, ‘The Book and the Baby‘ on Vela
• Meghan Daum, ‘What Makes a House a Home‘ on Literary Hub
• Alexandra Schwartz, ‘The Art and Activism of Grace Paley‘ in The New Yorker
• Kathryn Hughes, ‘George Eliot: is this a new portrait of the author as a young woman?‘ in The Guardian
• Lisa McInerney, ‘Don’t tell me that working-class people can’t be articulate‘ in The Guardian
• Emily Ballaine, ‘Bookselling in the 21st Century “Please Don’t Touch Me”‘ on Literary Hub
• Lisa Ko, ‘Not Finishing My Novel Would’ve Ruined My Life‘ on Literary Hub
• Hope Nicholson, ‘The fury and the fashion: comic-book heroines down the years‘ in The Guardian
• Helena Kelly, ‘The Many Ways in Which We’re Wrong About Jane Austen‘ on Literary Hub
• Jenni Fagan, on her path to publication on Dewar Art Awards
• Lorraine Berry, ‘on Didion, the South, and Race‘ on Essay Daily
• Rachel Rhys, ‘on writing a community of strangers‘ on The Literary Sofa
• Sarah Hughes, ‘‘She gave her mother 40 whacks’: the lasting fascination with Lizzie Borden‘ in The Guardian
• Nicola Streeten, ‘Drawn from history‘ in The TLS
• Sydney Moore, ‘Were women accused of witchcraft the first Essex Girls?‘ on The Pool
• Ever Dundas, ‘The Problems with Gender and Language‘ on The Skinny
• Danuta Kean, ‘Crossing the Line of Duty: why novels would never get away with TV’s crimes‘ in The Guardian
• Claire Cameron, ‘Why You Shouldn’t Get into a Fight with Jane Smiley‘ on Literary Hub
• Sunny Singh, ‘MP accuses BAME book prize of discrimination‘ on Media Diversified
• Kristen Arnett, ‘The Queer Erotics of Handholding in Literature‘ on Electric Literature
• Danuta Kean, ‘Why Brit crime fiction is paying international dividends‘ in The Guardian
• Nell Stevens, ‘Elizabeth Gaskell: Charlotte Brontë’s unlikely defender against prurient gossip‘ in The Guardian
• Sisonke Msimang, ‘All your faves are problematic: A brief history of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, stanning and the trap of #blackgirlmagic‘ on Africa Is a Country
• Rafia Zakaria, ‘A publisher of one’s own: Virginia and Leonard Woolf and the Hogarth Press‘ in The Guardian
• Laura Lam, ‘Gender-fluid Fiction: False Hearts Author on Breaking Stereotypes‘ on Waterstones’ Blog
• Dani Shapiro, ‘Writing About Marriage When You Want to Stay Married‘ on Catapult

Personal essays/memoir:

• Linda Mannheim, ‘Searching for the Internment Camp Where My Father Was Held‘ on Catapult
• Sarah Maria Griffin, ‘This Is What It’s Like To Have Sleep Paralysis‘ on Buzzfeed
• Caity Weaver, ‘My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday’s Endless Appetizers‘ on Gawker
• Ashley C. Ford, ‘My Father Spent 30 Years In Prison. Now He’s Out.‘ on Refinery29
• Eva Dillon, ‘My Father’s Secret Life as a Cold War Spy‘ on Literary Hub
• Stacy Torres, ‘The Admission‘ on Longreads
• Lisa Ko, ‘How I Learned To Live With A Chronic Skin Condition‘ on Buzzfeed
• Laura Turner, ‘On Miscarriage, Anxiety, and the Burden of Hope‘ on Catapult
• Julia Kingsford, ‘Aspergers and Asparagus‘ on Medium
• Sari Botton, ‘Hit Eject‘ on Longreads
• Kat Lister, ‘It’s essential that I tell you about my miscarriage‘ on The Pool
• Marie Myung-Ok Lee, ‘J. Stands Up‘ in The Paris Review
• Erin Chack, ‘My Boyfriend Isn’t My Soulmate, He’s My Carrot‘ on Buzzfeed
• Jennifer Hope Choi, ‘I Filmed The End Of My Parents’ Marriage‘ on Buzzfeed
• Zing Tsjeng, ‘My 14-Year-Old Cousin Taught Me How to Be a Cool Teen‘ on Broadly
• Betty Ann Adam, ‘How I lost my mother, found my family, recovered my identity‘ in Saskatoon Star Phoenix
• Clarissa Wei, ‘The Struggles of Writing About Chinese Food as a Chinese Person‘ on Munchies
• Lyz Lenz, ‘Lead Me On‘ on Hazlitt
• Eloghosa Osunde, ‘Don’t Let It Bury You‘ on Catapult
• Erin Kelly, ‘Learning to be a red lipstick kind of person‘ on The Pool
• Elisabeth Geier, ‘The Nostalgia of the Neighborhood Hardware Store‘ on Okey-Panky

Feminism:

• Nimco Ali, ‘I’m a Women’s Equality Party candidate – here’s why I’m standing against a female Labour MP‘ on The New Statesman
• Jess Zimmerman, ‘Dove’s dumb body wash bottles are an answer to a question nobody asked‘ in The Washington Post
• Eleanor Margolis, ‘Thanks Dove! Now I will finally stop comparing myself to the perfect form of a soap bottle‘ in The New Statesman
• Becca Andrews, ‘As a Girl, I Went Through Abstinence Ed. As a Woman, I’m Trying to Understand the Damage Done.‘ on Mother Jones
• Jenny Landreth, ‘Heroic British women swimming figures who deserve statues‘ in The Guardian
• Sady Doyle, ‘“Stealthing” Is Not a Trend. It’s Sexual Assault‘ in Elle
• Amy Hatvany, ‘I Taught My Son How Not to Be a Rapist‘ in Harper’s Bazaar
• Jess Zimmerman, ‘The Monstrous Female Ambition of the Harpy‘ on Catapult
• Danielle Dash, ‘Serena Williams and Black Pregnancy‘ on Danielle Dash
• Hawa Allen, ‘Becoming Meta‘ on Longreads

Society and Politics:

• Zoe Samudzi, ‘Who Are You and What Do You Really Know?‘ on The New Enquiry
• Masha Gessen, ‘The Autocrat’s Language‘ in The New York Review
• Maya Binyam, ‘Spell-Check Nation‘ on The New Enquiry
• Carla Bruce-Eddings, ‘Creating a Community for My Black Daughter‘ in The Cut
• Carole Cadwalladr, ‘The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked‘ in The Guardian
• Jessica Wapner, ‘Austin, Indiana: the HIV capital of small-town America‘ on Mosaic
• Nesrine Malik, ‘I Am Not Your Muslim‘ on NPR
• Javaria Akbar, ‘In praise of smelly food‘ on The Pool
• Rebecca Solnit, ‘Facing the Furies‘ in Harper’s
• Katherine Fidler, ‘How it feels when your research is used to justify disability benefit cuts‘ in The New Statesman
• Chimene Suleyman, ‘Britain is still searching for Maddie – why don’t we care about missing children of colour?‘ in International Business Times
• Julia Rampen, ‘View from Paisley: How the Conservatives are wooing Labour’s Scottish heartlands‘ in The New Statesman
• Rachel Monroe, ‘How rich hippies and developers went to war over Instagram’s favourite beach‘ in The Guardian
• Emma Green, ‘How Two Mississippi College Students Fell in Love and Decided to Join a Terrorist Group‘ on The Atlantic
• Irin Carmon, ‘If abortions become illegal, here’s how the government will prosecute women who have them‘ in The Washington Post
• Nina Caplan, ‘Beware of tea: the cuppa has started wars and ruined lives’ in The New Statesman
• Jess Phillips, ‘May says this is about stability. She should meet my constituents‘ in The Guardian
• Santilla Chingaipe, ‘Hair and social inclusivity‘ on The Saturday Paper
• Megan Garber, ‘Are We Having Too Much Fun?‘ in The Atlantic
• Ruth Whippman, ‘Work/life integration? No, thanks – I’d rather have balance‘ on The Pool

Film, Television, Music, Art, Fashion and Sport:

• Caity Weaver, ‘Dwayne Johnson for President!‘ in GQ
• Anna Leszkiewicz, ‘“I’m only human”: the rise and rise of male singers who cannot take criticism‘ in The New Statesman
• Helen Lewis, ‘From wars to power ballads: the geopolitics of Eurovision‘ in The New Statesman
• Sophie Gilbert, ‘What Does a Girlboss Look Like?‘ on The Atlantic
• Jude Rogers, ‘Bananarama – the ultimate British girl band – is back‘ on The Pool

The interviews/profiles:

• Joanna Ruocco in The Paris Review
• Dorothy Allison on Lenny
• Meg Howrey on Electric Literature
• Patricia Lockwood on The Pool, Literary Hub and The Observer
• Alyssa Cole on Jezebel
• Jess Arndt in The Cut
• Claudia Rankine on Literary Hub
• Dana Schwartz on Electric Literature
• Hala Alyan on Electric Literature
• Stephanie Powell Watts on Literary Hub
• Doree Shafrir on Hazlitt
• Edan Lepucki on The Millions
• Scaachi Koul on Hazlitt
• Olivia Sudjic in Vogue
• Irenosen Okojie on Medium and Minor Literature[s]
• Fiona Melrose on Short Story Day Africa
• Naomi Alderman in The New Statesman
• G. Willow Wilson in The New Yorker
• Kate Tempest in The Guardian
• Paula Cocozza in The Hackney Gazette
• Anne Elizabeth Moore on Literary Hub
• Claire Cameron on The Millions
• Lise Gaston on All Lit Up
• Sally Rooney on Short Story Award
• Lidia Yuknavitch on The Rumpus
• Monica Youn on Dive Dapper
• Morgan Parker in The New Yorker
• Amy Liptrot on Literary Hub
• Diane Schoemperlen on Queen Mob’s Tea House
• Jessie Burton in The TLS
• Aliette De Bodard on SciFiNow
• Elizabeth Strout in The New Yorker

The regular columnists:

• Ijeoma Oluo on The Establishment
• Lucy Mangan in Stylist
• Roxane Gay in The Guardian US
• Caitlin Moran in The Times
• Ella Risbridger in The Pool
• Sali Hughes in The Pool
• Bim Adewunmi in The Guardian
• Sophie Heawood in The Guardian
• Eva Wiseman in The Observer
• Tracey Thorn in The New Statesman
• Chimene Suleyman and Maya Goodfellow on Media Diversified
• Josie Pickens on Ebony
• Lizzy Kremer on Publishing for Humans
• Juno Dawson in Glamour
• Louise O’Neill in the Irish Examiner
• Jendella Benson on Media Diversified
• Lola Okolosie in The Guardian
• Sarah Gerard, ‘Mouthful‘ on Hazlitt
• Books by Women We’d Love to See in English on Literary Hub

In the Media: 16th November 2014

In the media is a weekly round-up of features written by, about or containing female writers that have appeared during the previous week and I think are insightful, interesting and/or thought provoking. Linking to them is not necessarily a sign that I agree with everything that’s said but it’s definitely an indication that they’ve made me think. Also, just a note to make it clear that I’m using the term ‘media’ to include social media, so links to blog posts as well as traditional media are likely.

Photo by Wayne Thomas

This week, there’s been lots of discussion on my Twitter timeline about an article by Joanna Walsh, writer and creator of #ReadWomen2014 on ‘Why must the “best new writers” always be under 40?‘ prompted by Buzzfeed’s ‘20 Under 40 Debut Writers You Need to Be Reading‘. Traditionally, these lists have disadvantaged women who, for a number of reasons, often publish their first novel later than many men. So, although it’s arbitrary/silly, this week’s top slot is going to pieces by or about those who published their first book at 40 or over.

We have Linda Grant (first novel published at 44) on why she’s hooked on the Serial podcast in The Guardian; Joan Chase (47) in her own words and Amy Weldon on her both on Bloom, a site dedicated to writers whose first major work was published at 40 or over; Ruth Graham tells the true story of Laura Ingalls Wilder (65) on Slate; Alexander Chee looks at Penelope Fitzgerald (59) via Hermione Lee’s biography of her on Slate; there are interviews with Lissa Evans (42) on the One More Page blog, Helen DeWitt (43) in BOMB magazine, Meg Rosoff (48) on Rebecca Mascull’s blog, Katherine Boo (48) on the theatre production of Behind the Beautiful Forevers in the Independent and Donna Douglas (40) on Female First; while Bobbie Ann Mason (42) has a new short story ‘Ready‘ on TNB Fiction and the first chapter of Summertime by Vanessa Lafaye (51) is up to read on One Book Lane; finally, you can find out why middle-aged women are dominated self-publishing according to The Guardian.

At the other end of the spectrum, writer Nikesh Shukla supports young writers in Bristol. They publish online magazine Rife. Here’s Sammy Jones’ ‘The Five Stages of Street Harassment‘ and Jess Connett on ‘Hidden WWI: Teenagers at War‘.

There’s also been more gender discussion. Time magazine added the word ‘feminism’ to a list their readers could vote on to ‘ban’. Roxane Gay responded in The Washington Post; Hannah McGill discussed gender depiction in Sci-Fi in The List; Jess Meacham critiqued Suzanne Moore’s column on selfie’s being anti-feminist and her use of Sylvia Plath’s poetry in ‘The Eyeing of my Scars‘ on her blog, while Non Pratt looked at gender representation in Young Adult books in We Love This Book.

And the woman with the most publicity this week is Amanda Palmer, whose book The Art of Asking was published on Tuesday. She’s in The Guardian following a live web chat; interviewed by Maria Popova of Brainpickings on YouTube; has written an article for The Independent and been interviewed in Billboard.

The best of the rest articles/essays:

• Gillian Bowditch on Muriel Spark’s sealed archive of papers in The Sunday Times (paywall)
• Shirley Clarke and Elaine Dundy profile in The New Yorker
• Sarah Churchwell, ‘Why the Humanities Matter‘ in the Times Higher Education supplement
• Emily Gould on literary liars and forgiveness in Salon
• Rose Tremain on ‘The short story and its difficulties‘ on the Waterstones blog
• Tobin Dalrymple on Carol Dunlop and Julio Cortázar’s love affair in Maisonneuve
• Nicholas Rombes on Joan Didion’s Play it as it Lays on Electric Literature
• Laura Miller in defence of true crime on Salon
• Dan Gunn on Marguerite Duras at 100 in the Times Literary Supplement
• Nadine Bachan ‘Ol’ Talk‘ on reawakening her Trinidad accent in Maisonneuve
• Zoe Heller, ‘The Hard Work of Marriage‘ on Gone Girl in The New York Review of Books
• Aja Romana on celebrated Sci-Fi novelist Benjanun Sriduangkaew being exposed as a notorious internet troll on the Daily Dot
• Jess Row, ‘The Genius of the Woman Warrier at 30‘ on Slate
• Laura Thompson on the rise and rise of women detectives in The Telegraph
• Margaret C. Sullivan on Pride and Prejudice book covers over time in The Huffington Post
• Nathan Heller, ‘Why Joan Didion Matters More Than Ever‘ in Vogue
• Catherine Bruton on violence in teen fiction in The Guardian
• Tom Gatti on judging the Goldsmith’s Prize (won by Ali Smith) in the New Statesman
• Katie Law, ‘Why the words “gone” and “girl” are the latest trend in publishing‘ in the Evening Standard
• Alison Flood on Ali Smith winning the Goldsmiths Prize in The Guardian
• Ali Smith’s lecture on Virginia Woolf for the National Portrait Gallery
• Sarah Jane Abbott, ‘How I Capture the Castle Captured Me’ on Huffington Post
• Tasha Golden on the lone genus myth in Ploughshares
• Sarah Kerr, ‘Wonder Woman: The Weird, True Story‘ in The New York Review of Books
• Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore on Male escorts and female sexuality in Aeon
• Rose Bretécher on sexism in publishing on For Books’ Sake
• Anne Lamott on how a day with a sick friend bought her back to her senses on Salon
• Stella Duffy, ‘reconstruction revelation‘ on how she feels about her breast reconstruction following cancer surgery on her blog
• Maureen O’Conner, ‘Ayn Rand, Gril-Power Icon‘ in The Cut
• Mary Mann, ‘Weiter‘ in Guernica
• Edan Lepucki, ‘Notes on Likeability in Fiction‘ on The Millions
• Miranda Kiek on Elizabeth Von Arnim in The Independent
• Madeline Watts on A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing and the necessity of a ‘girl canon’ for The Believer
• Roxane Gay on Lena Dunham on her blog
• Miriam Darlington’s ‘Nature Notebook‘ in the Times (paywalled)
• Erin Keane ‘Jane Austen Slept with all the Book Bloggers‘ on Salon
• ‘Was Jane Austen a Feminist Writer?‘ on Scottish Book Trust
• Liz Kessler on why her novel about a girl coming out has been in a drawer for 15 years in The Guardian
• Helen Lewis ‘who are women dressing for, anyway‘ in the New Statesman
• Brain Pickings on Anne Lamott and the true gift of friendship
• Helen McClory on monsters for the Queen’s Ferry Press blog
• Elisabeth Geier on male bodies and women trying to navigate them on The Catapult
• Essie Fox on the allure of the gothic on One Book Lane
• Judith Levine, ‘Lena Dunham Wasn’t a Paedophile, and Neither Were You‘ in the Boston Review
• Hisham Matar, ‘The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf‘ in The New Yorker
• Max Cairnduff, ‘Girls get murdered all the fucking time‘ on Lauren Beukes’ The Shining Girls on his blog
• Amy Uyematsu, ‘Old Asian American Poets Never Die‘ on Huffington Post
• Hannah Richell ‘And then…‘ on her blog
• Sabah Haider ‘Reflections on Northern Spirit‘ on Minor Literature[s]
• Beluah Devaney ‘Where Have All the Red-Headed Heroines Gone?‘ on For Books’ Sake
• Kathleen Anderson, ‘Why Cornel West Loves Jane Austen‘ on Huffington Post
• Helen MacKiven on her preference for female writers on her blog
• Blue Telusma, ‘Kim Kardashian doesn’t realise she’s the butt of an old racial joke‘ on The Grio

The interviews:

• Meera Syal on staring in Behind the Beautiful Forevers at the National Theatre, London
• Megan Amran in The Guardian
• Fiona McCrae, Graywolf Press Director, interviews Barbara Epler, President of New Directions on the Graywolf Press blog
• Brecken Hancock in Maisonneuve
• Emma Hannigan in Stylist
• Hilary Mantel reported in The Independent
• Helen Macdonald on The Guardian Books’ podcast
• Emily St. John Mandel on The Millions
• Jenny Offill interviews Lydia Millet on Salon
• Suzannah Dunn on Word Wenches
• Lindsay Hunter in The Believer
• Lore Segal on the Meville House website
• Margaret Atwood on the Huffington Post, responding ‘to some common tweets about Canadians‘ on Buzzfeed and in The West Australian
• Darcey Steinke on Bustle
• Jennifer Holland, Workman Publishing’s #ReadWomen2014’s author of the month on their blog
• Jo Mazelis on For Books’ Sake
• Jenny Erpenbeck on NRP Books
• Cheryl Strayed in Vanity Fair
• Tania Hershman on her flash fiction ‘Think of Icebergs‘ in Litro
• Andrea Levy in the Independent
• 5 Minutes with Marian Keyes on Eason Edition

This week’s ‘Who is Elena Ferrante?’ piece is by Jane Shilling in the New Statesman

If you want some fiction to read:

• ‘The Golden Room (Lucy’s Lips)‘ by Elizabeth Crawford in BOMB magazine
• Dorothea Lasky, ‘Never Did Amount to Anything‘ in Granta
• Olivia Laing, ‘The Other Hotel‘ on Manchester Literature Festival’s blog (click the title to download)
• Jackie Kay’s ‘Afternoon Tea‘ on Manchester Literature Festival’s blog (click the title to download)
• An extract from Jenny Erpenbeck’s The Ends of Days (tr. Susan Bernofsky) on NRP Books
• Marie-Helene Bertino on The Catapult ‘It’s about exes who fall from the sky.’

Or some non-fiction:

• ‘Thea‘ on I Will Pay £1.00 For Your Story blog
• Joanna Bourke’s introduction to Wounding the World on Virago’s website

This week’s lists

• 8 Moving First World War Books in Good Housekeeping
• Best Books to Read this November in Red magazine
• Arched Eyebrow’s 7 Favourite Books published this year on her blog
• Lydia Millet’s 5 Writing Tips in Publishers Weekly
• NetGalley’s UK Books of the Year
• Books that have taught me about ignorance on Of Books
• The top 10 books about reading in The Guardian
• 50 Novels Featuring Famous Authors as Characters on Flavorwire
• Best Reads for Christmas 2014 on Gransnet
• If You Liked Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham, You will Love… on Huffington Post
• 6 Witty Quotes from Margaret Atwood on Buzzfeed
• When Polly Vernon met Lena Dunham: 6 Things We Learned on Grazia
• Favourite Books of 2014 on Read Her Like an Open Book
• The Bookbag’s Top Ten Women’s Fiction Books 2014
• Quotations from Dan by Joanna Ruocco on the baumer
• 10 New Thought-Provoking Non-Fiction Books in Time Out New York
• 9 Books That Got Me Through My Awkward Teen Years on Bustle
• 5 Festive Novellas from Novelicious
• Some fantastic books about friendship in Rookie
• The 40 Books Every Woman Should Read on Hello Giggles