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Women authors

Regarding the Fame of Others

by Jonathan Cott, Susan Sontag,

From previously unpublished excerpts of a 1978 interview with Susan Sontag by Jonathan Cott. An edited version of the interview appeared in the October 4, 1979, issue of Rolling Stone.…

Making a Scene

by Christine Smallwood,

Willa Cather’s correspondence

Doing time

by Lynn Freed,

My years in the creative-writing gulag

A Punt Is a Pass Is a Kick

by William Lundell, Gertrude Stein,

Road and Rudy Rage

by George H. Gurley,

Scent of a Woman’s Ink

by Francine Prose,

Are women writers really inferior?

Of arms and the woman

by Marge Piercy,

Women who write

by Frances Taliaferro,

Of enclosure and escape

Silences

by Tillie Olsen,

When writers don't write

Christmas list

by John Fischer,

The angry young women

by Ellen Moers,