In the Media: January 2016

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 traditional media are likely and the categories used are a guide, not definitives.

January’s been living up to it’s reputation as the most miserable month in the calendar. There’s been the misogynistic and racist response to Sarah Howe’s Young Writer of the Year Award and TS Eliot Award wins. Poet, Katy Evans-Bush responded with ‘TS Eliot prize row: is winner too young, beautiful – and Chinese?‘ in The Guardian.

The deaths of David Bowie and Alan Rickman at least inspired some great writing: Stacey May Fowles, ‘Reconciling David Bowie‘ on Hazlitt and Sali Hughes, ‘I’ve had it up to here with the grief police‘ on The Pool. Gwendolyn Smith, ‘Forget Snape – in concentrating on him, we leave out one of the greatest roles Alan Rickman ever performed‘ in The Independent and Daisy Buchanan, ‘Alan Rickman’s Colonel Brandon taught me an important lesson about love‘ on The Pool

In happier news, there were a number of other prize wins for female writers: Kate Atkinson won the Costa Novel Prize; Anuradha Roy won the 2016 DSC prize for south Asian literature; A.S. Byatt won the Erasmus Prize, and the writers shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award were revealed, including Annalisa Crawford, Peggy Riley and Erin Soros.

Glamour welcomed a transgender columnist: Juno Dawson will chart her journey in the magazine. I’ll add Juno’s column to the regular columnists list once it has a permanent URL.

The Observer revealed their New Faces of Fiction for 2016 and Joanna Cannon wrote this great piece – The Monster Under the Bed – about her inclusion.

And the woman with the most publicity of late is Amy Liptrot with ‘I swam in the cold ocean and dyed my hair a furious blue… I was moving upwards slowly‘ in The Guardian; interviews in The Independent and The Pool.

The best of the rest:

On or about books/writers/language:

• Morgan Jerkins, ‘Writing While Black: On Cliche, Stereotype and the Struggle to Describe Blackness‘ on Literary Hub
• E.V. de Cleyre, ‘On “the Terrible Efficiency of Gaslighting”‘ on Brevity
• Sarah Weinmann, ‘True-crime stories: a centuries-old craze from Ben Franklin to Making a Murderer‘ in The Guardian
• Zetta Elliott, ‘Nobody’s Cheerleader‘ on her blog
• Lauren Groff, ‘on Writing with Lightness‘ on The Atlantic
• Sian Cain, ‘Why a non-white Nancy Drew could be amazing‘ in The Guardian
• Lenika Cruz, ‘The Promising Case of a Non-White Nancy Drew‘ on The Atlantic
• Catherine Lacey ‘on the Inspiration Behind Nobody is Ever Missing‘ on the WHSMITH blog
• Brigid Delaney, ‘A Little Life: why everyone should read this modern-day classic‘ in The Guardian
• Zoe Heller and Francine Prose, ‘Is the Writer’s Only Responsibility to His Art?‘ in The New York Times
• Gideon Lewis-Kraus, ‘The Trials of Alice Goffman‘ in The New York Times Magazine
• Claire Fuller, ‘The Huge, Unwieldy Beast versus Flash Fiction‘ on Women Writers, Women’s Books
• Adelle Waldman, ‘The Ideal Marriage, According to Novels‘ in The New Yorker
• Ali Smith ‘on Trumpet by Jackie Kay‘ in The Guardian
• Sarah Crompton, ‘Sexism on the stage – meet the women tearing up the script‘ in The Guardian
• Maria Turtschaninoff, ‘Why is feminist fantasy important?‘ in The Bookseller
• Catherine Hokin, ‘The Challenges of Writing Historical Fiction‘ on Helen MacKinven’s blog
• Deborah Smith, ‘On Translating Human Acts by Han Kang‘ on Asymptote
• Alison Glock Cooper and T Cooper, ‘Transgender: identity is never one single thing so tick the box that says ‘other’‘ in The Guardian
• Ann Mah, ‘Elena Ferrante’s Naples, Then and Now‘ in The New York Times
• Chloe Angyal, ‘I Decided Not To Read Books By White Authors For A Year. Conservatives Lost Their Damn Minds‘ on The Huffington Post
• Carmiel Banasky, ‘Topography of a Novel: The Suicide of Claire Bishop‘ on Blunderbuss
• Laura Miller, ‘Ladies of Leisure: The resurgence of the housewife novel‘ on Slate
• Martha Tennent and Maruxa Relaño, ‘How a Mother-Daughter Translation Team Makes it Work‘ on Literary Hub
• Peter Bebegal, ‘Cracking the Codes of Leena Krohn‘ in The New Yorker
• Sarah Lyall, ‘The Author Elizabeth Strout on ‘Lucy Barton’ and How Her Characters Come Into Being‘ in The New York Times
• Isabel Rogers, ‘on What a Poet can teach a Novelist‘ on Isabel Costello’s Literary Sofa
• Vidhu Aggarwal, ‘“I’m nothing, if not”: An Anecdote of a Jar‘ on VIDA
• Dawn Finch, ‘Why are we still talking about diversity and inclusion?‘ on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure
• Samantha Hunt’s Literary Mixtape: how to be a deranged cult leader in The Guardian
• Emma Claire Sweeney, ‘on the power of poetry and fiction‘ on Legend Press
• Joanna Biggs, ‘Work is where we make friends, exert power, fall in love‘ in The Guardian
• Non Pratt, ‘No taboo should be off limits when writing for teenagers‘ in The Guardian
• Brittany K. Allen, ‘I Wrote the Accent: A Black Writer Considers “Urban Romance”‘ in The Toast
• Laura Miller, ‘Why Fates and Furies was this year’s most talked-about novel‘ in The Guardian
• Cynthia Ozick, ‘The Novel’s Evil Tongue‘ in The New York Times

Personal essays/memoir:

• Alana Massey, ‘Marriage and Two Kids: A Most Scandalous Fantasy‘ in The Cut
• Lydia Kiesling, ‘Death and Heirs: A View from the San Francisco Housing Market‘ on The Millions
• Saigowri Kuruvada, ‘How I Learned To Accept My Self-Harm Scars‘ on Buzzfeed
• Isabel Murray, ‘I’m a Disgusting Sleeper‘ on The Awl
• Rowan Whiteside, ‘Uninvited‘ in Standard Issue
• Jane Campbell, ‘The Long Run‘ on Hazlitt
• Yurina Ko, ‘Little Big Eater Girl‘ on The New Inquiry
• Fleur Smithwick, ‘A response from my mother to the weird kid blog‘ on her blog
• Jen Gann, ‘Why Am I So Sad About Having a Boy?‘ in The Cut
• Monica Sok, ‘On Fear, Fearlessness, and Intergenerational Trauma‘ on VIDA
• Jenny Diski, ‘The Island of lost words‘ on her blog
• Lyz Lenz, ‘Growing Up With White Paranoia: Persecution vs. Privilege‘ on Pacific Standard
• Ellabel Risbridger, ‘#BREAKFREE From Likes: ‘I’ve Grown Up On The Internet’‘ in Marie Claire
• Cris Mazza, ‘A Finished Brain‘ on The Rumpus
• Julianne Smolinski, ‘The Funny Thing About Abusive Relationships‘ on The Cut
• Jean Hannah Edelstein, ‘I’m a Previvor‘ on Catapult
• Nicole Chung, ‘What Goes Through Your Mind: On Nice Parties and Casual Racism‘ in The Toast
• Lauren McKeon, ‘As Women Scorned‘ on Hazlitt
• Kim Brooks, ‘I’m Having a Friendship Affair‘ in The Cut
• Claire Jimenez, ‘Spanish Lessons: On Language Loss and Recovery‘ in The Toast

Feminism:

• Amy Swales, ‘A Story of a Fuck Off Fund‘ on Medium
• Cade Lebron, ‘Liar, Liar: On Writing About Rape Online‘ on Electric Literature
• Jane Marie, ‘On Going Off My Depression Medication During Pregnancy‘ in Cosmopolitan
• Rosamund Urwin, ‘Why do crimes against women always have the same, sad ending?‘ on The Pool
• Kathy Dobie, ‘To Catch a Rapist‘ in The New York Times
• Ann Friedman, ‘The 2015 renaissance of the agony aunt‘ on The Pool
• Nadia Atia, ‘Your fascination with Muslim women’s bodies has a long misogynistic history‘ on Media Diversified

Society and Politics:

• Chimene Suleyman, ‘‘Integration’ or ‘Assimilation’ is a Two-sided Negotiation‘ on Media Diversified
• Afroze Zaidi-Jivraj, ‘What It’s Like Being Muslim In 2016‘ on Media Diversified
• Leena Habiballa, ‘Too Black to be Arab, too Arab to be Black‘ on Media Diversified
• Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser, ‘Tinderization of Feeling‘ on The New Inquiry
• Harriet Alida Lye, ‘The Myth of the Myth of the City of Love‘ on Hazlitt
• Emer O’Toole, ‘How to be a moderately successful person‘ in The Guardian
• Kavita Bhanot, ‘Decolonise, not Diversify‘ on Media Diversified
• Stacia L. Brown, ‘The ugly history of comparing black athletes and animals‘ in The Washington Post

Film, Television, Music, Art and Fashion:

• Lynn Enright, ‘The brilliant feminism of Transparent and Jill Soloway‘ on The Pool
• Jude Rogers, ‘Why we’re wired to love pop music‘ on The Pool
• Hannah McGill, ‘Nora Ephron: queen of hearts‘ on the BFI website
• Michelle Smith, ‘Suffragette reminds us why it’s a lie that feminists need men’s approval‘ in The Guardian
• Sarah Maria Griffin, ‘Girls Explain Star Wars to You‘ on Scannain
• Robin James, ‘Hello From the Same Side‘ in The New Inquiry

The interviews:

• Joyce Carol Oates on Electric Literature and in The Guardian
• Lisa Williamson in The Guardian and on Scottish Book Trust
• Amy Gustine on Electric Literature
• Helen Ellis in The New York Times
• Mira Ptacin on Flavorwire
• Chelsea Hodson in Hobart
• Tara Guha on Chouett
• Elizabeth Evans on Guernica
• Diane Williams in The Los Angeles Review of Books
• Ann Goldstein (Elena Ferrante’s translator) on Guernica
• Chaitali Sen on The Rumpus
• Valerie Martin in The Guardian
• Eileen Myles in The New York Times
• Liz Lochhead in The Guardian
• Margaret Atwood on Electric Literature
• Emma Donoghue on The Pool
• Sandra Cisneros on The Rumpus
• Lidia Yuknavitch and Anakana Schofield on Electric Literature
• Marlene Van Niekerk in The White Review
• Helen McClory on The Skinny
• Caitlin Moran in Stylist
• Roxane Gay on Sky Blue Window
• Tessa Hadley in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times
• Ayisha Malik in The New Statesman
• Samantha Hunt on The Millions
• Claire Fuller on Sarah Jasmon’s blog
• Claudia Rankine in The Guardian
• Amy Poehler in The Guardian

The regular columnists:

• Laurie Penny in The New Statesman
• Lucy Mangan in Stylist
• Roxane Gay in The Guardian US
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown in The Independent
• Caitlin Moran in The Times
• Lauren Laverne in The Pool
• 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
• Bridget Christie in The Guardian
• Lizzy Kremer on Publishing for Humans

In the Media: 22nd March 2015

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.

The big news this week is that Kath Viner became the first woman appointed to the role of editor-in-chief at The Guardian in its 194 year history. The first woman to edit a UK broadsheet and only the second EIC of The Guardian to have attended a (selective) state school.

Unfortunately, the other trend in articles this week have been about the abuse women have suffered from a variety of sources; Heidi Stevens wrote in the Chicago Tribune ‘Hate mail lesson: Uncombed hair threatens the natural order‘; Sarah Xerta wrote ‘The Brick Wall: The Intersection of Patriarchy, Privilege, Anger, and Language‘ on VIDA; Juliet Annan ‘is a Lazy Feminist‘ in publishing on the Penguin Blog; Sara Pascoe wrote ‘The hymen remains an evolutionary mystery – and the focus of the oppression of women’s sexuality‘ in The Guardian; Katie McDonough wrote ‘If you’re shocked by this Penn State frat’s nude photo ring, you’re not paying attention‘ on Salon; Jessie Burton took ‘Speakers’ Corner‘ on Hunger TV; Claire Byrne wrote, ‘One sordid, gross and offensive comment must have been thought up while he sat there scratching himself in his grey fading jocks. I wonder what makes people think it’s acceptable to make comments like that?‘ in the Irish Independent, and Ashley Judd wrote, ‘Forget Your Team: Your Online Violence Toward Girls and Women Is What Can Kiss My Ass‘ on Mic.

And there’s been a number of articles about race; Rebecca Carroll wrote ‘Calling out one racist doesn’t make white people any less complicit in supremacy‘ in The Guardian; Jia Tolentino wrote ‘How to Talk About Race With Your Starbucks Barista: A Guide‘ in Jezebel; Maya Goodfellow wrote, ‘Climate change is easier to ignore because right now it’s people of colour who suffer the most‘ on Media Diversified; Vulture interviewed Claudia Rankine on ‘Serena, Indian Wells, and Race‘ and KCRW’s Bookworm asked her about writing the racial ‘other’.

This week’s Harper Lee news: To Kill a Mockingbird was named #78 on The Guardian list of The 100 Best Novels; Casey N. Cep reported on ‘Harper Lee’s Abandoned True-Crime Novel‘ in The New Yorker, and Jonathon Sturgeon asked ‘Is It Time to Get Hopeful About Harper Lee?‘ on Flavorwire.

And prizes this week went to Louise O’Neill who won the inaugural YA Book Prize and Louise Erdrich won the Library of Congress Award.

The best of the rest articles/essays:

• Mary Chris Escobar, ‘In Defence of Fluff‘ on Women Writers, Women’s Books
• Lizzy Kremer, ‘Let’s All Fall in Love: Reading and Romance‘ on Publishing for Humans
• Margaret Dilloway, ‘on Disobedient and Difficult Female Characters‘ on Read Her Like an Open Book
• Andrea Calabretta, ‘Land of Fire and Ice‘ in Litro
• Bryce R. Covert, ‘When Men Want Kids — and Women Aren’t So Sure‘ in The Cut
• Chika Unigwe, ‘The Transformation of Mama Paulina‘ in Guernica
• Habibe Jafarian, ‘How to Be a Woman in Tehran‘ (tr. Salar Abdoh) in Guernica
• Melissa Harrison, ‘Rivertones 3‘ (two songs to accompany her new novel At Hawthorn Time on Caught By the River
• The Morning News Tournament of Books An Untamed State vs Station Eleven
• Rachel Brownson, ‘The Resurrection of the Body: On Family, Mental Illness, and Grief‘ in The Toast
• Shonda Rhimes at The Human Rights Campaign Gala in Los Angeles, 2015 on Medium
• Sarah Perry, ‘Sherlock’s swansong: the ideal Holmes expedition‘ in The Guardian
• Laura Sook Duncombe, ‘Literary Ladies Cage Fight: Winter of Our Discontent‘ in The Butter
• Sara Alaica, ‘Over the Mountains‘ in Vela
• Andre Gerard, ‘Names, Texts and WWI in To the Lighthouse‘ in Berfois
• Andre Gerard, ‘The Odyssey, The Times and Howard’s End in To the Lighthouse‘ in Berfois
• Andre Gerard, ‘Virgil, Tolstoy and War in To the Lighthouse‘ in Berfois
• Zadie Smith, ‘Yates Lane, NW8‘ in Five Dials
• Lynn Melnick, ‘First Loves‘ on Poetry Foundation
• Rita Dove, ‘Homage to Toni Morrison‘ on Critical Mass
• Brigid Schulte, ‘Why time is a feminist issue‘ on Daily Life
• Emily Drabble, ‘Carnegie medal and Kate Greenaway 2015 shortlists announced‘ in The Guardian
• Catharine Morris, ‘Ali Smith at the Wapping Project‘ on the TLS Blog
• Caroline Criado-Perez, ‘If the UK government doesn’t protect exploited domestic workers, it is complicit in slavery‘ in the New Statesman
• Roopa Farooki, ‘Making Time to Write‘ on the Tinder Press Blog
• Elaine Feeney, ‘Untitled‘ (on what it’s like to die) on The Bogman’s Cannon
• Rafi Schwartz, ‘Male Science-Fiction Authors Discuss The Women Writers Who Influenced Them‘ on Good
• Lorna Bradbury, ‘Picture books are not just for babies‘ in the Telegraph
• Thea Lenarduzzi, ‘When Virginia found her Rachel?‘ on the TLS Blog
• Julie Zeilinger, ‘This Author Is Exposing the Sexist Double Standard in Children’s Literature‘ on Mic
• Emma Hogan, ‘The Sweet Sting of Muriel Spark‘ on Intelligent Life
• Sari Botton, ‘Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep 10 Years Later‘ on Longreads
• Heather Havrilesky, ‘Like a Prayer‘ in Aeon
• Jeanette Winterson, ‘on The Waves‘ on the Penguin Blog
• Elif Shafak, ‘As storytellers, we speak for pluralism and democracy‘ in The Observer

• Liz Blocker, ‘Things We Don’t Talk About: On Coming Out to My Family‘ on The Toast
• Jaki McCarrick, ‘The Genesis of Belfast Girls‘ on CloudNine
• Deborah Smith, ‘Writing Against the Grain: Contemporary Korean Women to Watch‘ on For Books’ Sake
• Leslie Jamison, ‘Enough About Me‘ in The Atlantic
• Allison Williams, ‘Women and the Global Imagination: Sweet Time‘ on Prairie Scooner
• Anna Ross, ‘Report from the Field: I Don’t Know How She Does It‘ on VIDA
• Ilana Masad, ‘On Hebrew and Living in Gendered Language‘ in The Toast
• Leesa Cross-Smith, ‘Why A Well-Written Story May Be Rejected, Or, Every Editor Has Their Things‘ on The Review Review
• Leesa Cross-Smith, ‘First Tastes and Endeavors‘ on Real Pants
• Tania James, ‘What Writers Can Gain From Seeing the World Through Different Eyes‘ in The Atlantic
• Kim Phillips-Fein, ‘Why Workers Won’t Unite‘ in The Atlantic
• Anne Hull, ‘For Hardee’s workers, it’s not a parable, it’s a job‘ in The Washington Post
• Ainehi Edoro, ‘Why Zadie Smith Tops Adichie’s List of Women Who Write Well and Dress Well‘ on Brittle Paper
• April Bernard, ‘Laura’s World‘ (on Laura Ingalls Wilder) in the New York Review of Books
• Elizabeth Mills, ‘Liminal Space, or: Depression, Transitioning, and What’s in Between‘ in The Toast
• Ashley Ford, ‘Disrupting Domesticity: Take Care‘ in The Butter
• Aeman Ansari, ‘Origin Story‘ on Hazlitt
• Sophie Gilbert, ‘Why Are Art Heists So Fascinating?‘ in The Atlantic
• Jessie Burton, ‘A Week in the Life of the Novelist‘ in the Wall Street Journal
• Hadley Freeman, ‘I had anorexia – but not because I wanted to look like a fashion model‘ in The Guardian
• Harriet Alida Lye, ‘The New Occupation of Paris‘ in Vice
• Nicole Cliffe, ‘Trapped in the Stairwell: My Birth Story‘ in The Toast
• Felicity Cloake, ‘So hot right now: the peppers that prove there’s a perv in all of us‘ in the New Statesman
• Sady Doyle, ‘Season of the witch: why young women are flocking to the ancient craft‘ in The Guardian
• Alice Hoffman, ‘My inspiration: Mary Poppins‘ in The Guardian
• Tracey Thorn, ‘There’s no magic to raising twins – I just had to find my own brand of baby care‘ in the New Statesman
• Jessica Levine, ‘Living Time, Writing Time: Narrating the Fourth Dimension in Fiction‘ on Bloom
• Susan Pinker, ‘Why face-to-face contact matters in our digital age‘ in The Guardian
• Bianca Stone, ‘The House With Feet: The Dire Importance of Ruth Stone’s Bequest‘ on VIDA
• Jonathon Sturgeon, ‘Zoella’s Clockwork Novels: Fanfiction, Ghostwriters, and the Bizarre, Automated Future of Publishing‘ on Flavorwire
• Rebecca Scherm, ‘New Genres: The Worm in the Apple‘ on Electric Literature
• Alison Flood, ‘How come the romantic novel of the year is a work of Young Adult fiction?‘ in The Guardian
• Gabrielle Glaser, ‘The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous‘ in The Atlantic
• Rebecca Mead, ‘Sole Cycle‘ in The New Yorker
• Kate Garrett, ‘Why We Do Poetry‘ on Pankhearst
• Robin Rinaldi, ‘Then They Took Off Their Clothes and Did That Thing‘ on Book Keeping
• Judith Thurman, ‘Doll’s Play‘ in The New Yorker
• Monique Rivalland and Louise France, ‘i’m a teen, there 4 i tweet‘ in The Times
• Edith Hall, ‘Challenging the Classical Conservatives‘ on Edithorial
• Margaret Atwood, ‘Game of Thrones: “Real people, every murderous one”‘ in The Observer
• Moira Redmond, ‘Judging a book by its title: when books don’t live up to their names‘ in The Guardian
• Rebecca Mascull and Louise Walters, ‘Moon Tiger discussion‘ on Rebecca Mascull’s blog
• Eve Makis, ‘on Cyprus‘ on Isabel Costello’s Literary Sofa
• Judith Shulevitz, ‘In College and Hiding From Scary Ideas‘ in The New York Times
• Sasha Garwood, ‘Trigger warning: in which intent and outcome are so rarely coincident‘ on The F Word

The interviews:

• Maggie Nelson in Guernica
• Laxmi Narayan Tripathi in Guernica
• Caitlin and Caz Moran on The Debrief
• Rachel Cusk on Foxed Quarterly
• Miranda July in The Scotsman
• Laura Munson on Blogcritics
• Kim Gordon in The NME and on It’s Nice That
• Robin Rinaldi on Salon
• Kirsty Gunn and Deborah Levy on the LRB Bookshop Podcast
• Emma Healey in Woman
• Kate Forsyth on New Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
• Azar Nafisi in the New Humanist
• Lauren Olivier in The Guardian and on the Huffington Post
• Zen Cho and Stephanie Feldman on Electric Literature
• PP Wong on This Is Writing
• Naja Marie Aidt on Maisonneuve
• Eula Bliss and Kate Hamer on The Guardian Books’ Podcast
• Lucy Knisley on Publishers Weekly
• Polly Teale on Northern Soul

If you want some fiction/poetry to read:

• ‘Andromeda‘ by Sam Mills in Litro
• ‘Calypso in Therapy‘ by Louise Palfreyman in Litro
• ‘The Tikbalang‘ by Bethany W. Pope in Litro
• ‘Petrification‘ by Ruth Brandt in Litro
• ‘Fimbulwinter‘ by Francoise Harvey in Litro
• ‘Arcadia, Mars‘ by Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers in Guernica
• ‘Subcortical‘ by Lee Conell in Guernica
• ‘An Optical Illusion‘ by Eimear Ryan on Long Story, Short
• ‘Postal Worker and Housewife‘ by Nellie Hermann on Blunderbuss
• An extract from The Holiday by Nell Osbourne on Goldfish
• ‘Caterpillars‘ by Hallie Bateman on Blunderbuss
• ‘The Slanted Life of Emily Dickinson‘ by Rosanna Bruno
• ‘Erasure Methods‘ by Annie Ostlund on Electric Literature
• ‘The Matter of Seggri‘ by Ursula K. Le Guin on poliscifi
• ‘Initiation‘ by Kamilah Aisha Moon in The Offing
• ‘I looked for you, I called your name‘ by Laura Van Den Berg on Bookanista
• ‘Routine‘ by Arike Oke in Litro
• ‘A-Z of the Death Drive‘ by Deborah Levy in Five Dials
• ‘Talking With the Dead‘ by Claire Fuller on her blog
• ‘Tra le righe/Between the Lines‘ by Mati Colarossi (tr. Mati Colarossi) on Parallel Texts

Or some non-fiction:

• A new introduction to The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf on the Penguin Blog
• An extract from Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
• ‘Escape from New York‘ by Ellen Willis from The Essential Ellen Willis on The Village Voice

The lists:

• 12 Super Short Stories You Can Read in a Flash on the Huffington Post
• Read Her Now: Five Women to Translate in 2015 on All Wrongs Reversed
• Five things we learnt… from Caitlin Moran at WOW on the Southbank Centre
• How Do You Get Over Someone? 15 Books to Get You Through a Breakup With Your Dignity Intact on Bustle
• 3 New Books to Read If You Loved The Girl on the Train in Glamour
• From Zadie Smith To Helen Oyeyemi And Emily Brontë, Bestselling Female Authors Who Nailed Their Biggest Hit Novel Under The Age Of 30 in Stylist
• 7 YA Reads That Will Sweep You Up in Politics on the Huffington Post
• 15+ Top Indian Women Authors Whose Books Should Be On Your Summer Reading List on Polka Cafe
• 10 Best Coming-of-Age Books You’ve Never Read on Publishers Weekly
• 17 Things We Just Learned About Elena Ferrante From Her Paris Review Interview on Vulture
• 10 Poets of Colour we Discovered (or Rediscovered) in 2014 on Media Diversified
• Spring Books Guide: 22 Novels, Memoirs, and Collections We Can’t Wait to Read in Vogue
• Kat Brown’s How to write a dystopian YA novel in 10 easy steps in the Telegraph
• IRL: Nonfiction to Read if You Loved AMERICANAH on BookRiot