November 2011
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"Willis really thought that happiness was within... →
Richard Beck on Ellen Willis at n+1.
BUY NO MORE NICE GIRLS HERE
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"Her refusal to subsume her personality to a... →
— n+1 on Ellen Willis. The introduction to No More Nice Girls is available here for your reading pleasure.
BUY THE BOOK
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Book club meeting tomorrow night! →
I’m bringing homemade cookies, just sayin’. You only have to bring yourself.
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Standing in the Goods
Inferno and the Myth of the American Working-Class Artist
by Sady Doyle
“I could go for about a month without working. That was the amount of debt I could float.” — “Eileen Myles,” the narrator of Inferno (a poet’s novel)
Portraits of bohemian poverty are a dime a dozen. Describing your crappy apartment, elaborately painful relationships and the earlier, cuter stages of alcoholism is...
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Style Like Eileen Myles
by Marie Lyn “Riese” Bernard
My girlfriend got me an Eileen Myles t-shirt at this Sister Spit event in Oakland, it’s black with big purple letters reading “YOU’VE GOT THE STYLE EILEEN MYLES.” I wore it for the first time in Palm Springs to a Dinah Shore White Party which is a party where everyone wears white. And Dinah Shore is this gross annual lesbian “weekend” for girls who want to...
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Are We Sisters Under the Skin Yet?
by Lauretta Charlton
Recently I stumbled across a photo of Ryan Gosling. You know the one. “Hey girl. My perfect Saturday is a hot cup of tea, a trip to the Farmer’s market and curling up on the couch to figure out bell hooks’ theory that feminism is a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture with you.” Soon after, I read “Sisters Under the Skin?” by Ellen...
