Rachel laura kipnis biography
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Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation
You'll recognize the zippy dialogue, you'll know the “will they/won’t they?” plotline, the dramatic irony. Or perhaps, if you are someone intimately familiar with the story, you are right now yelling at your screen that inom am dumb; that while it is clearly a comedy, it is not the Ur romantic-comedy. You may continue to säga, perhaps, that the inherent class divide between Elizabeth and Darcy required too much personal growth from both of them before they were ready for each other, which runs counter to current rom-com strictures which require t
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My beloved bookworms!
It is here! My annual “these are the best things I read all year.” I’d like to do a little ceremony around each one, because really, we’ve come so far together, but honestly, seeing as it is the 27th of December, right in the middle of Dead Week and you probably have all your reading material lined up already for the rest of your holidays, this newsletter may not excite you as much as it does me, but here we are together anyway for the last time this year so let’s have a good time together.
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Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook
Recent comments by Laura Kipnis:
On the blog February 6th, 2009
That's interesting as I actually found that the Brutalman appearance, and the real-world intrusion, was the most interesting part of the experience--as I'm now convinced that was indeed the real life Saul Green (a.k.a. Clancy Sigal) surfacing. I wish he'd said more. For my part, I think that wish reflects the limitations I felt about this process. To begin with, my own lack of sufficient knowledge about the book's context. Also, I would have liked male perspectives on the book, not only us girls. I'm glad I had the chance to participate in this experience and to reread the book; I think this could be a fantastic model for virtual book groups, but I suspect it wasn't as interesting for others to follow as for those of us who were responding to the book and to each other.
Page 503 December 31st, 2008
I was stunned to read in the after-matter section