Erica Jong's opinion column in the New York Times last weekend, entitled "Is Sex Passé?", was probably just an inflammatory booster for the new book she has edited, an essay collection about women and sex called Sugar in my Bowl. It was also, however, a fake trend piece, and Katha Pollitt has stepped up Read More
With a decision from the governor just days away, the list of prominent feminist types who have declared support for Caroline Kennedy to fill Hillary Clinton's Senate seat is a short one. Among the best-known are New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, 79-year-old Representative Louise Slaughter and former Kennedy White House correspondent Read More
How hard is it, Katha Pollitt asked in The Nation last month, to hire female columnists? "How hard can it be to 'find' Barbara Ehrenreich … Dahlia Lithwick … Sharon Lerner … Debra Dickerson?"
"Here's the monkey wrench," said Ms. Dickerson, author of The End of Blackness. "The New York Times had me in contention for Read MoreRead all about it! New York's comfortably employed, middle-aged writers start trend of publishing queasy, painful-to-read, subtextually hostile " way too much information" scenes from their own lives. Younger writers who read this prose are reported to spend subsequent days in blue funk, fearing that their own lives will turn out the same way.
Katha Pollitt's Read More