“The Female Persuasion” follows a bright but soft-spoken high school suburbanite through a series of events that lead to her identification as a capital F feminist.
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Confessing to Being a Bad Friend
A lot of airtime is dedicated to high school bullying, but I think Dalia forgot about me long before I’ll ever forget about her.
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The Floridian Underbelly: A Review of Sarah Gerard’s “Sunshine State”
Sarah Gerard’s collection of essays is part-memoir, part-investigative journalism about the darker sides of Floridian life.
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Sharon Olds’ Disgusting and Beautiful “Odes”: Cleavage, Menstrual Blood, Stretch Marks
To go as far as she can, and yes, to be a little disgusting too, is the project of Sharon Olds “Odes.” The poems dig deeply into the thrilling un-loveliness of aging, made lovely by her classic, single stanza poems.
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Poem: How to Lose Your Memory, How to Never Get It Back
By Leigh Lucas. In your former life, so you’re told, you were wild./ You threw yourself down stairs to end a pregnancy
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