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Reading Women

  1. reading women
    Emily Witt on the Book That Made Her Question What’s NormalThe Prime of Life by Simone de Beauvoir “shows the worth of experimentation.”
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Hala Alyan on the Book That Made Her World Seem NormalInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri.
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Ava DuVernay on the Book Her Sister RecommendedThe filmmaker was a freshman at UCLA when she first read Their Eyes Were Watching God.
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    What Would Alice Munro Do?Curtis Sittenfeld on the writer she’s most grateful to.
    By Curtis Sittenfeld
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    Brooke Gladstone on the Book She Reread After the ElectionShe returned to The Left Hand of Darkness, “probably to distract myself from reality.”
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Elizabeth Alexander on the Book That Taught Her About Complicated Women“Little Women was my first consciousness of what it meant to really love and inhabit and identify with a book.”
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Cristina Henríquez on the Book That Broke Something Open“When I read The House on Mango Street, it was suddenly like, Oh, this is literature, too.”
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Vivian Gornick on the Book That Made Her a Personal EssayistThe Little Virtues shows how an essay “can make you feel the wonderment of being alive.”
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Aparna Nancherla on the Book That Taught Her to Own Her ExperienceInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri “gave voice to the conflict I felt as an Indian American.”
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Mary Karr on the Book That Showed Her the Power of ColdnessThe Lover, by Marguerite Duras, is “beyond anything that I as a writer could do.”
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Katie Roiphe on the Book That Gives Her the Courage to Be Unlikable Janet Malcolm “dismantles everyone’s pretensions right in front of you.”
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Alexandra Kleeman on the Book That Makes Her Feel Extra AlertDictee, by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, “re-creates the experience of being new to language.”
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Eileen Myles on the Book That Made Writing Like Talking“Gertrude Stein’s Lectures in America totally changed my sense of what writing was.”
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Margaret Cho: The Book That Changed How She Thought About Asian-American History“Our heritage has a lot of difficult stuff in it.”
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Claire Vaye Watkins on the Book That Changed HerThe Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin.
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Angela Flournoy on the Book That Changed HerBeloved by Toni Morrison.
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Yiyun Li on the Book That Changed HerThe Aubrey Trilogy by Rebecca West.
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Ariel Levy on the Book That Changed HerForty-one False Starts by Janet Malcolm.
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen
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    Brit Bennett on the Book That Changed HerThe Color Purple by Alice Walker.
    As told to Erica Schwiegershausen