Moira Donegan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Moira Donegan

I had somehow missed this: Blake Bailey, the Philip Roth biographer and accused serial rapist, is publishing a memoir about being a victim of cancel culture: https://t.co/ergJP0AFlc

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And then they let me write about lesbian nuns *again,* this time in a review of Lauren Groff’s vivid novel of women’s ambition at a Medieval English convent, MATRIX. https://t.co/tuxFXPZT3E

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@irin I’ve said it before but it’s amazing how many peoples’ policy visions basically amount to, “Have you ever read this Michel Houellebecq novel called ‘Submission’?”

Moira Donegan

Happy pub day to On Women, a collection of Sontag’s essays on feminism (with a perfect intro by @merve. Here’s an excerpt from my favorite piece in the book, from Sontag’s interview with the Spanish language Marxist magazine Libre: https://t.co/X57ZmgvemV

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Just me, a mild fever, and Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

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I reviewed @fancynancynyc’s “Roll Red Roll,” an investigation into the Steubenville rape case, for the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/10/books/review/roll-red-roll-nancy-schwartzman.html

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Doing a little project where every week I read one of the chapters in Stanley Cavell’s “Pursuits of Happiness” and watch the accompanying old Hollywood marriage comedy, and look, I did NOT expect to spend so much time crying about the reconciliation of the erotic & the quotidian.

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Grady is right. Back in August, I also wrote about Susan Faludi’s Backlash and its relevance to our antifeminist moment for @lyzl’s newsletter: https://t.co/WcnmMtofR4 https://t.co/VdHY1LJxbL

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Just me, a mild fever, and Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

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@scriblerian Times Square Red Times Square Blue is amazing. I focus on the sex politics here, but it’s also really moving on urbanism and the grief of gentrification; kind of like a gayer, first person distillation of Marshall Berman’a All That Is Solid Melts Into Air. I highly recommend.