The Book of Sheffield

The Book of Sheffield, which includes my story ‘The Time Is Now’, is currently the Sheffield Big City Read. As part of the celebrations, Dan from Sheffield Libraries interviewed me for their podcast. I talk about why my story is a love letter to the city, as well as Sheffield bands, Doctor Who, why you can’t escape yourself, tram journeys and writing in my local pub. You can listen to the podcast here.

And because I love music and I scattered several titles throughout the story, I’ve made a playlist of all the songs, which are verified Sheffield bops (mostly from the 90s). The playlist is available on Spotify and YouTube Music. Enjoy!

In the Media: November 2016, Part One

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.

What else can begin this fortnight’s coverage?

• Lindy West, ‘Blaming political correctness for Trump is like blaming the civil rights movement for Jim Crow‘ in The Guardian
• Rebecca Traister, ‘Shattered‘ in The Cut
• Various, ‘Waking Up in Trump’s America, Part 1‘ in The New Enquiry
• Dayna Tortorici, ‘What Can Feminists Do?‘ on n+1
• Elizabeth Drew, ‘How It Happened‘ in The New York Review of Books
• Mira Jacob, ‘Here’s What I’m Telling My Brown Son About Trump’s America‘ on Buzzfeed
• Sarah Churchwell, ‘Hillary Clinton didn’t fail us. We failed her‘ in The Guardian
• Various on the US election in The Guardian
• Michelle Dean, ‘Don’t Stop Believin’‘ in New Republic
• Linda Mannheim, ‘after the shock waves of the us elections, how do we locate ourselves?‘ on 3:am
• Heather Wells Peterson, ‘What Can Art Do After Trump?‘ on Literary Hub
• Masha Gessen, ‘Autocracy: Rules for Survival‘ in The New York Review of Books
• Garnette Cadogan, ‘Staying and Fighting, and Finding Strength in Poetry‘ on Literary Hub
• Leslie Jamison, ‘The Day After Trump Won‘ on Granta
• Nicole Chung, ‘The Day After The Election, I Told My Daughter The Truth‘ on Buzzfeed
• Bim Adewunmi, ‘What Is America So Afraid Of?‘ on Buzzfeed
• Laurie Penny, ‘On the Election of Donald J Trump‘ in The New Statesman
• Ashley Weatherford, ‘If Trump Scares You, You’re Getting a Glimpse of What It Feels Like to Be Black in America‘ in The Cut
• Ann Friedman, ‘Finish Your Ugly-Crying. Here’s What Comes Next.‘ in The Cut
• Gloria Steinem, ‘After the election of Donald Trump, we will not mourn. We will organize‘ in The Guardian
• Lindy West, ‘Her Loss‘ in The New York Times
• Lola Okolosie, ‘How to tell the children about Trump? After all, they deserve the truth‘ in The Guardian
• Maureen Langloss, ‘It’s A Man’s World‘ on her blog
• Ayahna Hamilton, ‘“Progress”, Black Women and the US Presidential Election‘ on gal-dem
• Hadley Freeman, ‘I’ve heard enough of the white male rage narrative‘ in The Guardian
• Sarah Ditum, ‘Donald Trump has grabbed America by the pussy, and it’s women who will suffer‘ in the New Statesman
• Amelia Tate, ‘Control, Alt-Right, Retweet: How social media paved the way for President Trump‘ in the New Statesman
• Anne Enright, ‘Never has male anatomy been so waved about in politics‘ in The Irish Times
• Allison Pearson, ‘Why misogyny was The Donald’s trump card‘ in The Telegraph
• Maya Goodfellow, ‘Make no mistake – Donald Trump’s victory represents a racist “whitelash”‘ in the New Statesman
• Caroline Crampton, ‘Voting for Trump and Brexit: what the working class revolt is really about‘ in the New Statesman
• Kelcey Parker Ervick, ‘How We Talk About Women’s Lives‘ on Literary Hub
• Joanna Walsh, ‘Time to reclaim language: words are more important than ever in the age of post-truth politics‘ in the New Statesman
• Bridget Minamore, ‘As a woman of colour I foresaw Trump was going to win‘ on The Pool
• Nicole Chung, ‘Parenting the Election‘ on Hazlitt
• Chloé Cooper Jones, ‘Miami Dispatch: Unmoored Realities on the Campaign Trail‘ on Medium
• Pamela Newkirk, ‘The Myth of a Post-Racial America‘ on Literary Hub
• Susan Straight, ‘I Drove 3,582 Miles to Vote for the President‘ on Literary Hub
• Nicole Dennis-Benn, ‘My First Visit to the Church of American Democracy‘ on Literary Hub
• Lauren Elkin, ‘Donald Trump, Anti-Flaneur‘ on Literary Hub
• Barbara Kingsolver, ‘End this misogynistic horror show. Put Hillary Clinton in the White House‘ in The Guardian
• Jill Filipovic, ‘The Men Feminists Left Behind‘ in The New York Times
• Jessa Crispin, ‘Madam Prescient‘ on The Baffler
• Nikole Hannah-Jones, ‘Trump’s Inconvenient Racial Truth‘ in The New York Times
• Olga Khazan, ‘The Lasting Harm of Trump-Style Sexism‘ on The Atlantic
• Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie, ‘What Hillary Clinton’s Fans Love About Her‘ in The Atlantic
• Isabel Fonseca, ‘Voters, guns and hurricanes‘ in The TLS
• Rebecca Solnit, ‘New York City Is a Book Conservatives Should Read‘ on Literary Hub
• Emily Harnett, ‘On the Horror of Language, and the Horror of Trump‘ on Literary Hub
• Elaine Showalter, ‘Pilloried Clinton‘ in the TLS

Photograph by Nye’Lyn Tho

The best of the rest:

On or about books/writers/language:

• Aminatta Forna, ‘The Many Ways in Which the Heart Can Break‘ on Literary Hub
• Martha Greengrass, ‘Running with the Wolves: An Introduction to The Bloody Chamber‘ on Waterstones
• Jenn Ashworth, ‘A moment that changed me: stealing the book that saved my life‘ in The Guardian
• Sabina Murphy, ‘What Can Historical Fiction Accomplish that History Does Not?‘ on Literary Hub
• Anna Wilson, ‘Full-body Reading’ on Aeon
• Saba Imtiaz, ‘Searching for a 14th-Century Scribe in Modern Jordan‘ on Literary Hub
• Sara Schaff, ‘When Your Characters Live Inside Your Childhood Home‘ on Literary Hub
• Kathy Gale, ‘Successful Women‘ in The Bookseller
• Naomi Frisby, ‘Coverage of Experimental Fiction Writing Is a Half-Formed Thing‘ on Tilted Axis
• Gabrielle Bellot, ‘A Young Woman Called Death…‘ on Literary Hub
• Gaby Wood, ‘Elena Ferrante: how to see an invisible author‘ in The Telegraph
• Elena Ferrante, ‘I believe that books, once written, have no need of their authors‘ in The Observer
• Miranda Carter, ‘Dining with death: crime fiction’s long affair with food‘ in The Guardian
• Linda Grant, ‘I can’t write after lunch, in a public place, or when anyone is in the house‘ in The Guardian
• Arisa White, ‘In Praise of Our Black Women Poets‘ on Literary Hub
• Natalie Jerome, ‘Dear next generation…‘ in The Bookseller
• Candice Carty-Williams, ‘I’m Temi? I’m Temi from The Glamma Kids, you know?‘ in The Bookseller
• Margaret Busby, ‘Is it still a case of plus ça change?‘ in The Bookseller
• Ama Josephine Budge, ‘We must constantly question what our own agenda might be‘ in The Bookseller
• Kelsey McKinney, ‘Out of Print: The Original Nancy Drew Novels‘ on Lenny
• Sara Nović, ‘What Does an Artist Look Like?‘ on The James Franco Review
• A.J. Ashworth, ‘Introducing Writers on Rejection: A new series‘ on her blog
• Sarah Domet, ‘The Search for Home in American Fiction‘ on Literary Hub
• Alexander Chee, ‘Elena Ferrante, Private Novelist‘ on New Republic
• Emma-Jane Kirby, ‘Open to Ghosts: Writing The Optician of Lampedusa‘ on Waterstones’ blog
• ‘Virago publishers share the books that made them feminist‘ in Stylist
• Carina del Valle Schorske, ‘On the Perilous Potential of Feminist Silence‘ on Literary Hub
• Elaine Blair, ‘Elena Ferrante: Hiding in Plain Sight‘ in The New York Times
• Tanya Landman, ‘The MPs’ expenses scandal breathed life into history‘ in The Guardian
• Elena Ferrante, ‘What An Ugly Child She Is‘ in The New Yorker
• Lennie Goodings, ‘Feminism, pornography and lots of crying in the loos: 43 years of Virago‘ in The Telegraph
• Lyz Lenz, ‘Why We Love to Be Haunted‘ on Literary Hub
• Evie Gaughan, ‘Gender Bias in the Literary World‘ on Women Writers, Women’s Books

Personal essays/memoir:

• Rachel Klein, ‘When the Body Breaks Its Silence‘ on Catapult
• Cari Luna, ‘Under Threat of the Really Big One‘ on Catapult
• Millissa Kingbird, ‘Woman Standing at Rock‘ on The Rumpus
• Nancy Matson, ‘My Low-Wage Job at the Circus‘ on Catapult
• Amy Zhang, ‘Lotus Pods and Jambalaya in Jianguomen: Memory and Change in a Beijing Neighborhood‘ on Catapult
• Salley Vickers, ‘I didn’t love my mum enough to kill her‘ in The Times (£)
• Holly Müller, ‘Fascism and Its Echoes, and the Othering of the Mentally Ill‘ on Literary Hub
• Deborah Jackson Taffa, ‘This American Paradise‘ on The Rumpus
• Jacqueline Doyle, ‘What Did You Say?‘ on Medium
• Deepti Kapoor, ‘All the Things I Thought About When We Were Naming My Nephew (aka A गुलाब by Any Other Name; aka Song for Kian)‘ on Catapult
• Emma Sloley, ‘Nudists Always Play Volleyball‘ on Catapult
• Kally Mays, ‘We, the Hunted: Dogs, Resistance, and Survival‘ on Catapult
• Merritt Tierce, ‘Carved in Wood‘ on The Paris Review
• Louise Penny, ‘The Last Promise‘ on AARP
• Susan Straight, ‘Every Month Is Black History Month‘ on Literary Hub
• Mariam, ‘So, What Generation Immigrant Are You?‘ on Femsplain
• Scaachi Koul, ‘There’s No Recipe For Growing Up‘ on Buzzfeed
• Emma Straub, ‘Teenage Dream‘ on Tin House
• Mikella Clements, ‘When Your Family Business Isn’t a Family‘ on Catapult
• Helena Fitzgerald, ‘The Accidental City‘ on Catapult

 

Feminism:

• Sharine Taylor, ‘Body Politics: Beyoncé, Teyana Taylor, and the Liberation of Black Women Through Dance‘ on Noisey
• Mila Kunis, ‘You’ll Never Work In This Town Again…‘ on A Plus
• Olga Khazan, ‘A Diary of Toxic Love‘ on The Atlantic
• ‘Stanford Sexual Assault Case Survivor Emily Doe Speaks Out‘ in Glamour
• Ashley Nelson Levy, ‘Of Course By Now You Know This Story‘ on Catapult
• Megan Garber, ‘How Rom-Coms Undermine Women‘ on The Atlantic
• Claire Heuchan, ‘For the White Woman Who Wants to Know How to be My Friend: A Black Feminist Guide to Interracial Solidarity‘ on Sister Outrider
• Caroline O’Donoghue, ‘There will always be a place in the world for witches‘ on The Pool

Society and Politics:

• Marian Bull, ‘California Dreaming‘ on Eater
• Antonia Juhasz, ‘Inside the Battle Over the Dakota Access Pipeline‘ in Pacific Standard
• Paris Lees, ‘Punching Bags‘ on Vice
• Amy Wollard, ‘Tent Revival‘ on VQR
• Marilynne Robinson, ‘Against Oligarchy‘ on Literary Hub

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

• Dafna Izenberg, ‘In The Air Again‘ on Hazlitt
• Alana Massey, ‘Your Brands and Lovers‘ on Real Life
• Amber Butchart, ‘Why our love affair with leopard print is never going to die‘ on The Pool
• Soraya Roberts, ‘Adrienne Shelly Will Take You There‘ on Hazlitt

The interviews/profiles:

• Jillian Tamaki on Room
• Jenn Ashworth on Wales Arts Review
• Zadie Smith in The Bookseller, Vanity Fair and The Telegraph
• Belle Boggs on The Rumpus
• Anakana Schofield in the New Statesman and on The Writes of Woman
• Malka Older on The Rumpus
• Helena Kelly in The Bookseller
• Sarah Ladipo Manyika in the New Statesman and on The Writes of Woman
• Eimear McBride in the New Statesman
• Rachel Cusk in the New Statesman
• Eleanor Hooker in The Irish Times
• Petina Gappah in The Guardian
• Dodie Bellamy in The White Review
• Alexandra Kleeman in Guernica
• Jade Chang on Electric Literature
• Esmé Weijun Wang on The Rumpus and Catapult
• Ann Patchett in Guernica
• Michelle Tea in BOMB Magazine
• Vi Khi Nao in Electric Literature
• Therese Oneill on The Millions
• Kelly Luce on Electric Literature and Tin House
• Fanny Howe on Literary Hub
• Jane Alison on The Rumpus
• Jasna Ani on Words Without Borders
• Wendy C. Ortiz on Electric Literature
• Cristina Sánchez-Andrade on Bookanista
• M.J. Carter on From First Page to Last
• Anne Carson 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
• Juno Dawson in Glamour
• Kashana Cauley on Catapult
• 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

The White Review Short Story Prize 2016

A rare personal post from me but as it’s about writing and I’m a woman, I figure I’m allowed this one.

My short story, ‘Role Play‘ has made the shortlist for The White Review Short Story Prize 2016. I’m completely thrilled. If you follow the link you can read it on the site. (Typing that makes me both excited and very nervous!)

In the Media: 17th May 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. 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.

Two excellent UK prizes – the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize and the Desmond Elliot Prize announced their longlist and shortlist, respectively this week. The former has eleven women on a longlist of fifteen. Yes, that does say ELEVEN, that’s 75% of the shortlist (well, 73.3 if you’re being pedantic). And the latter is an ALL WOMEN shortlist of three, from a longlist of ten that had gender parity. Excellent news.

You can read interviews with two of the Desmond Elliot shortlisted writers, Cary Bray and Emma Healey, in The Bookseller

Two important pieces about sexual abuse and victim blaming were published this week: Hayley Webster ‘31 years have passed with me thinking I asked for it…but what if I didn’t‘ on her blog and Lizzie Jones, ‘Sexual Assault: Society, Stop With the Slut Shaming‘ on The Huffington Post.

 

The best of the rest:

On or about books/writers/language:

• Meytal Radzinski, ‘Women in Translation: The grim improvement of 2014‘ on Bibliblio
• Eve Ainsworth, ‘Why I wanted to tell the bully’s story‘ in The Guardian
• S.D. Sykes, ‘Memento Mori… Remember that you have to die‘ in Shots
• Laura Miller, ‘You Belong to Me: The fanfiction boom is reshaping the power dynamic between creators and consumers.’ on Vulture
• Kathryn Schulz, ‘Outside In‘ (on Nell Zink) in The New Yorker
• Lizzy Kremer, ‘Crime and Violence: Those who do not flinch‘ on Publishing for Humans
• Sophie Hannah, ‘No one should condescend to Agatha Christie – she’s a genius‘ in The Guardian
• Kate Spicer, ‘Why is the term dadbod so brilliantly perfect?‘ in The Pool (more about neologisms than the concept of dadbod itself)
• Mona Eltahawy, ‘Why I stopped wearing the hijab‘ in The Pool
• Rebecca Bowler, ‘Dorothy M Richardson deserves the recognition she is finally receiving‘ in The Guardian
• Cheryl Strayed and Pankaj Mishra, ‘Is There a Double Standard for Judging Domestic Themes in Fiction?‘ in The New York Times
• Beluah Maud Devaney, ‘Signs That Agatha Christie Is About To Murder You‘ in The Toast
• Laura Miller, ‘Fairy tales, fantasy and dangerous female desire: Celebrating Angela Carter, the literary link between Bros. Grimm and “50 Shades”‘ on Salon
• Joanna Cabot, ‘On Reading a Book You Don’t Like‘ on TeleRead
• Susan Price, ‘Reviving the Female Canon‘ in The Atlantic
• Susan Harlan, ‘Great House Therapy: Elizabeth & Darcy’s Neither Formal Nor Falsely Adorned Pad of Privilege‘ in The Toast
• Sarah Hughes, ‘Killer Women festival: The female crime novelists transforming how the publishing industry works‘ in The Independent
• Maria Farrer, ‘Why teenagers have to take terrible risks in YA literature – and in real life too‘ in The Guardian
• Hannah Lavery, ‘Why Libraries Are Important To Me‘ on her blog
• Suzi Henderson, ‘The Great Literature Gender Gap‘ on The Inflectionist

• Hannah Depp, ‘Meghan Daum, Live in the Capital‘ on Literary Hub
• Melissa Moorer, ‘This Writer’s On Fire: Sofia Samatar‘ in The Butter
• Ali Hope, ‘Mary Hocking reading week 1st-7th June‘ on her blog
• Sara Nović, ‘Topography of a Novel: Girl at War‘ on Blunderbuss
• B.E. Andre, ‘How to Make the Truth Palatable‘ on Women Writers, Women’s Books
• SD Sykes, ‘on writing crime during the time of a great plague‘ on Crime Files
• Sarah Bannan, ‘Can we do it? Yes, we can: on daring to use the first person plural‘ in the Irish Times
• M. Lynx Qualey, ‘Is There a Renaissance in Arabic Children’s Literature?‘ on Arabic Literature (in English)
• Sadie Stein, ‘Booksellers Week‘ on The Paris Review Blog
• Marian Palaia, ‘The Real World vs The MFA‘ on Literary Hub
• Jami Attenberg, ‘This week’s con.‘ on Tiny Letter
• Nicole Lee, ‘Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘Fear of causing offence becomes a fetish’‘ in The Guardian
• Laura Sook Duncombe, ‘Literary Ladies Cage Fight: Baby-Sitters Club vs. Sweet Valley High‘ in The Butter
• Mona Eltahawy, ‘World in 2050: Women in Power‘ on Literary Hub
• Frances Wilson, ‘The nourishing blood of the novelist‘ in the New Statesman
• Lauren Laverne, ‘My own personal Wonderland‘ in The Pool
• Mallory Ortberg, ‘The Forgotten Brontë Sister‘ in The Toast
• Leesa Cross-Smith, ‘Books Are My Love Language & How to Treat Yourself‘ on Real Pants
• Sarah Pinborough, ‘Fantasy and Reality – Where Do You Draw the Line?‘ on the Huffington Post
• Cerrie Burnell, ‘Every child deserves to have their life represented in books‘ in The Guardian
• Lizzy Kremer, ‘Are you talking to me? Writing under a new identity‘ on Publishing for Humans
• Jill Lepore, ‘Women in Science Fiction‘ on The New Yorker Podcast
• Bridget Penny, ‘an ostentation of solitariness: looking for the wilderness in abney park cemetery‘ in 3AM:Magazine
• Alice Bolin, ‘Miss Marple vs. the Mansplainers: Agatha Christie’s Feminist Detective Hero‘ on Electric Literature
• Naomi Frisby, ‘Reading Ourselves‘ on Fiction Uncovered

Personal essays/memoir:

• Jesmyn Ward, ‘Cracking the Code‘ in The New Yorker
• Julie Brister, ‘Large as Life‘ on Slate
• Sali Hughes, ‘There’s no such thing as TMI‘ in The Pool
• Laura June, ‘The Little Things‘ in The Awl
• Meridith De Avila Khan, ‘A Girl and Her Books: On the Loss of Sweet Briar College‘ on The Millions
• Sophie Heawood, ‘I’ve fallen out of love with music‘ in The Guardian
• Leah Reich, ‘The Birth of Uncool‘ on Medium
• Deborah Landau. ‘When I Got Pregnant At 40, Time Slowed Down‘ on Buzzfeed
• Myfanwy Collins, ‘Bruise: On Living with the Fear of Dying‘ in The Butter
• Monica Heisey, ‘Walt‘ on Maisonneuve
• Sadie Stein, ‘Like Rain on Your Wedding Day‘ on The Paris Review Blog
• Ashley Ford, ‘Disrupting Domesticity: Bored to Broken‘ in The Butter
• Shirley Muir, ‘Out of the Blackness‘ on Scottish Book Trust
• Ailidh Lennon, ‘“I wanted a house with a garden and chickens”‘ in The Pool
• Cyn Vargas, ‘I Don’t Know What You’re Talking About‘ on Midnight Breakfast
• Sofia Soter Henriques, ‘Nossa Família‘ on Midnight Breakfast
• Samantha Hunt, ‘There Is Only One Direction‘ in The Cut
• Bryony Gordon, ‘‘I’m coming out of the mental health closet for my daughter’‘ in The Telegraph
• Leslie Nipkow, ‘How I became fat: “It’s tough to be a bad-ass girl in a dainty world”‘ on Salon
• Sarah Royal, ‘The Best Time I Was The Only Passenger Aboard A Cargo Freighter Container Ship Across the Pacific Ocean‘ on The Hairpin
• Jessica Valenti, ‘It’s great to have a vacation. And even better when you leave kids at home‘ in The Guardian

Feminism:

• Dawna I. Ballard and Sunshine Webster, ‘Why Women ‘Having It All’ Is an Empty Concept‘ on Medium
• Erika Hall, ‘Across the River and Into the Woods‘ on Medium
• Lauren Dozier, ‘The Inconsistent Acceptance of Black Beauty‘ on The Huffington Post
• Emily Mitchell, ‘A Boy My Sister Dated in High School‘ in Guernica
• Tracy Moore, ‘Single Mom By Choice: A Great Option for ‘Strong-Ass Bitches’‘ in Jezebel
• Anna Merlan, ‘‘Suck Dick, Fight or Quit Doing Gay Shit’: The Texas Prison Rape Problem‘ on Jezebel
• Caroline Criado-Perez, ‘What Makes a Good or Bad Female Role Model?‘ in Stylist
• Danielle Brooks, ‘How I Learned to Love My Body‘ in Glamour
• Minda Honey, ‘Empty Beds, Empty Wombs: Life Beyond the Blueprint‘ in The Los Angeles Review of Books
• Olga Kazan, ‘Into the Body of Another‘ in The Atlantic
• Ann Friedman, ‘What Getting Your Nails Done Really Means‘ in The Cut
• Sarah Tomlinson, ‘My conflicted relationship with female beauty‘ on Salon
• Christina Tesoro, ‘I’m a Bitch and Proud of It‘ in Cosmopolitan
• Louise Foxcroft, ‘The diet industry has exploited our health fears for centuries – here’s how‘ in The Guardian
• Elissa Strauss, ‘The Rise of “Mama”‘ on Longreads
• Louise Raw, ‘Why Are We So Afraid of the Idea of Women in Power‘ on Morning Star

Society and Politics:

• Zoe Williams, ‘What does the new government mean for women?‘ in The Pool
• Lyndsey Gilpin, ‘Women Making Whiskey: An 800-Year History‘ in The Atlantic
• Susan Berfield, ‘Chinese Maternity Tourists and the Business of Being Born American‘ on Bloomberg
• Aude Konan, ‘Why Black people in France are still invisible‘ on Media Diversified
• Sarah Ladipo Manyika, ‘Coming of Age in the Time of the Hoodie‘ on AGNI
• Anna Holmes, ‘The Underground Art of the Insult‘ in The New York Times
• Eleanor Margolis, ‘Is it just me, or did you receive loads more online dating attention on post-election Sunday?‘ in the New Statesman
• Ann Jones, ‘“Farkhunda is Our Sister”‘ in Guernica
• Jean Friedman Rudovsky, ‘The Ecotourism Industry Is Saving Tanzania’s Animals and Threatening Its Indigenous People‘ in Vice
• Emma Green, ‘American Religion: Complicated, Not Dead‘ in The Atlantic
• Helen Macdonald, ‘Spies in the Sky: On How Birds Reflect Our National Anxieties‘ in The Guardian
• Roisin Kiberd, ‘Will love win in Ireland?‘ in The Pool
• Alexis Gumbs, ‘an element of radical waywardness‘ in The Offing
• Sarah Maslin, ‘Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers‘ in The New York Times
• Abby Tomlinson, ‘I’ll always be a Milifan. Ed was the best prime minister we never had‘ in The Guardian
• Caroline O’Donoghue, ‘Teenage girls are far smarter than we give them credit for‘ in The Pool

Film, Television, Music and Fashion:

• Anne Helen Petersen, ‘In Praise Of Betty Draper, Difficult Woman‘ on Buzzfeed
• Caroline Framke, ‘The Ascendancy of the ‘Awkward Older Sister’‘ in The Atlantic
• Jiayang Fan, ‘Chinese Whisperers‘ in The Awl
• Samira Sawlani, ‘What fresh hell is this? ‘The Princess of North Sudan; more scary tale than fairy tale’‘ on Media Diversified
• Jenn Lyons, ‘Women of the Wasteland – Mad Max: Fury Road‘ on her blog
• Alice Coote, ‘My life as a man‘ in The Guardian
• Eliana Dockterman, ‘How TV Sex Got Real‘ in Time
• Marissa Bate, ‘So, Hollywood thinks women aren’t superheroes?‘ in The Pool
• Jessica Winter, ‘David Letterman Raised Me‘ on Slate
• Sady Doyle, ‘Age of Robots: How Marvel Is Killing the Popcorn Movie‘ on Medium
• Hadley Freeman, ‘Why I owe it all to 1980s movies‘ in The Guardian

The interviews:

• Anne Enright in Vol. 1 Brooklyn
• Victoria Dahl in Jezebel
• Helen Macdonald on Electric Literature
• Sara Nović on Electric Literature
• Suzanne Scanlon in BOMB Magazine
• Aine Greaney on The Fem
• Margaret Jull Costa on Foyles’ Blog
• Jessica Hopper in The Hairpin and on Salon
• Lisa Kleypas on Jezebel
• Nell Zink on Literary Hub and on the Huffington Post
• Sora Kim-Russell on London Korean Links
• Kate Atkinson in The Globe and The Mail
• Amanda Palmer in Standard Issue
• Joanne Harris on Rebecca Mascull’s blog
• Sarah Govett on Teen Librarian
• Toni Morrison on Goodreads
• Cal Moriarty on Orenda Books
• Elisa Gabbert on Okey-Panky

 

If you want some fiction to read:

• ‘A Millennial Revenge Fantasy‘ by Jamie Lauren Keiles on The Hairpin
• The first five chapters of The Life and Death of Sophie Stark by Anna North in The Pool
• ‘Ghosts & Cyborgs‘ by Lyndsey Ellis in The Offing
• ‘Film Previews on a Plane: The Helpful Summaries‘ by Margaret Atwood in The National Post
• ‘Thanksgiving in Connecticut‘ by Katherine Bell on The Fem
• An extract from A Tale of Two Besties by Sophia Rossi on HelloGiggles
• An extract from My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff on Literary Hub
• ‘The Kind of Water I Like‘ by Lillian Akampurira Aujo on Sooo Many Stories
• ‘McCarthy and Woolf‘ by Chella Courington in Cacti Fur
• ‘Juke Joint Banshee‘ by Patty Templeton on Urban Fantasist
• ‘The Wretched Pet‘ by Betty McIntyre on Urban Fantasist
• ‘The Ice-Cream Van‘ by Jessica Patient on Urban Fantasist

If you want some poetry to read:

• ‘Extinction‘ by Jackie Kay in The Guardian
• ‘A Reading in New York‘ by Claire Potter in the New Statesman
• ‘[I can’t bear anymore what happens to the body]‘ by Victoria Lynne McCoy in The Offing
• ‘Words Like Applesauce‘ by Bethany Mary in The Fem
• ‘Thing is an Amen‘ by Rachael Katz in The Offing
• ‘Black Words Matter‘ Four poems by Baltimore Students on Real Pants
• ‘in this story…‘ by Lisa Marie Basile in Berfrois
• Six by Elisa Gabbert on Okey-Panky

The lists:

• 47 Books Every College Grad Should Read on Buzzfeed
• 10 Books to Read This Summer in the Wall Street Journal
• 8 reasons you absolutely have to watch Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in The Pool
• Judith Claire Mitchell’s Top 10 (unconventional) ghosts in literature in The Guardian
• Books of the Week, May 18, 2015 on Publishers Weekly
• Amelia Gray’s 10 Best Dark Books on Publishers Weekly
• 13 Best Quotes from Adichie’s Pen Festival Lecture on Brittle Paper
• 4 Small Press Books to Read in May (All-Women Edition) on BookRiot
• Kirsty Logan’s Seven New(ish) Island Books on The Island Review
• 11 Teen Books About Growing Up in Scotland on Scottish Book Trust
• Sarah Menkedick’s Four Books on Early Motherhood on Vela
• 12 Feminist Books ‘Mad Men’s Joan And Peggy Could Have Used To “Burn This Place Down” on Bustle