The Texas legislature knew exactly what they were doing here, and they knew that even if the law was struck down, they’d win in the mid-term.

To compound the issues, even if they can open their doors, they’ll have a difficult time finding doctors who can perform abortions. NPR had a story just the other day about barriers to training in Texas, which basically boil down to Texas thinks it’s acceptable to make their med students go out of state to learn how…

Did you read the piece about the undercover prison guard that was run last week and think ‘what a nice memoir?’

I didn’t say anything about feminism or excluding all men. (I’ve read a number of great books by men who are not white, cis, or straight!) I’m also not disregarding the viewpoints and experiences of white cis straight men; I have lived my life in the culture they’ve shaped, I’m married to one, and I spent most of my…

Nonetheless, Kourtney jokes that she’ll change the last names of her children to Kardashian, in front of Scott.

After seeking out so many female authors, I have come to the conclusion that male authors are published under a lower standard.

I mean, jesus, if they had caught her? No political good will on earth would have kept her from a hard labor camp. But, if a dude had done this story...freaking NY times would have been all over his “courage”. What it boils down to is that a) we don’t like the idea that women can sneak around and b) we really don’t…

When I read the Hunger Games series I was struck by just how realistic its portrayal of what it’s like to be in the midst of a war was. I barely recall the love triangle. It’s a shame it was marketed that way.

“lady journalist”

“In this particular case I think spying on the N Koreans might be best left to professionals.”

Seriously. As soon as I see the words “a memoir” on the cover, my eyes glaze over and I look for something else. I’m afraid to say I absolutely would have passed this over.

I have zero patience for another white-male-coming-of-age story.

The author of A Jane Austen Education wrote about being That Guy in school, complaining about having to read Emma when he wanted to read Serious Male Authors because he was a Serious Male. One woman student pointed out she’d spent a literal twenty years identifying with male protagonists but none of her colleagues…

I bought this when it came out, and at the time found it odd that extended stretches were dedicated to her uncertain long distance romance with a Brooklyn man. Each time the narrative was interrupted to dedicate time to her uncertain romantic footing, I kept wondering if it was a case of her editor forcing her to…

Remember when John Green saved the entire YA genre with his awesome standard fiction books with male protagonists?

I’m constantly stunned by how publishers market books written by women. Giving them soft, non threatening covers that often have nothing to do with what the story is inside. One I just finished was The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes. It’s a brilliant piece of sci-fy, horror. A thrilling, brutal and exiting story about…

right? Like, the entire literary canon taught from middle school through college is white men. We spent months on Shakespeare alone. WHITE MEN WILL SURVIVE.

I would love to design book covers ... it seems like so much fun. Did you see the gender-swapped book cover redesigns that were going around a while ago? (http://www.thefrisky.com/photos/check-o…)

You do realize that investigative journalism has a long history and tradition of first-hand narrative-style writings, right? Nellie Bly was doing it a century ago?

I made a similar resolution after far too many years in literature classes that focused on writers who were white men. It seemed like most of them were essentially writing the same book and I was tired of reading it over and over again.