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Mastering the Art of Emotional Corseting: Living Rooms and Closed Doors

Posted on March 27, 2010 at 2:11pm 0 Comments

[Crossposted from Millicent and Carla Fran: A Female Bromance in Letters]



Dear Carla Fran,



After reading your letter about your grandmother, I’ve thought a lot about how “repression” and closed doors have gone out of fashion. Good things open doors, bad things close them (unless God opens a… Continue
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The Bitch: Norman Mailer on Women Writers

Posted on November 14, 2009 at 8:30am 1 Comment

[cross-posted from Millicent and Carla Fran]



Courtesy of Carla Fran, my co-blogger. If you need a giggle and a snort with your coffee, read on:



Norman Mailer is a self-mythologizer, very much in love with the idea of the hungover writer who understands the virility of being. Writing is dangerous: you risk alcoholism, depression and madness if you let yourself go into your art.… Continue
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American Writers

Posted on November 13, 2009 at 3:30pm 0 Comments

"There exists a great politesse around women's poetry," Courtney Queeny writes, "and to write critically is, in some ways, to betray one's feminine self (the part that's supposed to blink a lot and sigh into the shadows when the menfolk start talking politics at the dinner table)."



In solidarity with Kamy Wicoff' and the SheWrites call to action, I've already bought Francine Prose's Gluttony and just bought Adina Hoffman's My Happiness bears No Relation to Happiness, which looks like… Continue
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Why Don't Fetuses Get Free Health Care?

Posted on November 12, 2009 at 11:33am 0 Comments

It's a curious feature of the Republican approach to reproduction that the fetus has the right to life but not to medical care*. The life belongs to the fetus, so the money required to bring that fetus to term---including the cost of the birth---should be calculated not as part of the "expense" of being a woman in the health care system but rather as a Fetal Birthday Gift From America.



Women are more costly, the prevailing Republican wisdom goes, because of their child-bearing years.… Continue
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Why Women Don't Make Top Ten Lists: Prose on Prose

Posted on November 11, 2009 at 6:59pm 1 Comment

[crossposted]



Laura Miller's article on Publishers Weekly's top ten list led me to Francine Prose's article, "Scent of a Woman's Ink," which was published in Harper's Magazine in 1998. It's not available to nonsubscribers but it's a formidable piece and relevant still, though it's equally interesting to think about the ways in which some things have changed. I want to rescue it from the archives and reproduce some parts of it here for consideration as we pound our way… Continue

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Mastering the Art of Emotional Corseting: Living Rooms and Closed Doors

[Crossposted from Millicent and Carla Fran: A Female Bromance in Letters]Dear Carla Fran,After reading your letter about your grandmother, I’ve thought a lot about how “repression” and closed doors have gone out of fashion. Good things open doors, bad things close them (unless God opens a window). In our…See More
Blog post by Millicent O'Reilly Mar 27, 2010
Kamy Wicoff left a comment for Millicent O'Reilly
What a great post -- thank you so much for contributing your thoughts, your words and your action! I am so glad you are here. Warm best, Kamy
Nov 16, 2009
Menique Aviles commented on the blog post 'The Bitch: Norman Mailer on Women Writers'
Oh good lord. LOL. I'm tempted to go find his blog, buy his book or whatever, read it when I need a laugh and use it all as inspiration to prove him completely wrong.
Nov 15, 2009
Millicent O'Reilly left a comment for Kamy Wicoff
So Kamy, this is fantastic fun. Thanks for starting this.
Nov 15, 2009
Millicent O'Reilly commented on the blog post 'Making Progress: Supporting Women Writers'
Hey LaTonya, I'm in. I'd be inclined to spend the year focusing on new books by women, since it seems like that's where we can make the most difference. Some possible additions to your list: Alice Munro's new book "Too Much…
Nov 15, 2009
Millicent O'Reilly replied to the discussion 'What Keeps You Up at Night? What Wakes You in A Cold Sweat?'
Hi Marcy, This is such a generous thread; thanks for starting it. My goblins are procrastination (the internet does not help---so easy to channel your energy anywhere that feels less risky) and fear of failure. They seem related. Fear of failure…
Nov 15, 2009
Millicent O'Reilly replied to the discussion '15 Books'
In no real order: Gaudy Night (Dorothy Sayers) A Wrinkle in Time (Madeline L'Engle) The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Anne Fadiman) Ex Libris (Anne Fadiman) Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion) Light in August (William…
Nov 15, 2009
Millicent O'Reilly replied to the discussion 'Tell us which book YOU bought in support of the women of She Writes!'
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness, by Adina Hoffman The Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie Moore Yay!
Nov 15, 2009
Millicent O'Reilly left a comment for Nancy Rawlinson
Thanks for alerting us to Margo's post on the LA Times blog, Nancy!
Nov 15, 2009
Millicent O'Reilly commented on the blog post 'Lost (and Found) in Translation: Top Ten Books by International Women Writers'
Wow, thanks for this fantastic list Jean.
Nov 14, 2009
Julie Jeffs left a comment for Millicent O'Reilly
Hi Millicent, Welcome to the Bloggers Let’s Make it Work group! So glad you are here. Please visit the discussion New Members Visit Here First, tell us about your blog so we can list it on the members blog index. I hope you will find, as I…
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Millicent O'Reilly commented on the blog post 'Norman Mailer holds the answer to PW's 10 best list'
Hi Renate and Alice! Yeah, that Mailer quote is amazing in how directly it links noveling to 'nads. My co-blogger Carla Fran dug up some other nuggets of his some time ago that I'll reproduce shortly. Here's one: “The novel is…
Nov 14, 2009
Millicent O'Reilly commented on the blog post 'What's on YOUR Nightstand?'
Hi Cathy, Yup. That's struck me as a problem ever since I was a kid and noticed that while I read books with both girl and boy protagonists, boys would rather die than read the Ramona books or even "A Wrinkle in Time." The Harry…
Nov 14, 2009

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Millicent O'Reilly commented on the blog post 'Why are Best-Books Lists Mostly Male? (From Politics Daily)'
Such a great article, Lizzie. "The publishing industry is no better at ignoring gender than your average obstetrician." I had this line pointed out to me a week or so ago by a fellow writer; loved it then, love it now. And yes: the risk…
Nov 14, 2009

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At 5:46pm on November 15, 2009, Kamy WicoffKamy Wicoff said…
What a great post -- thank you so much for contributing your thoughts, your words and your action! I am so glad you are here.

Warm best,
Kamy
At 9:18am on November 14, 2009, Julie JeffsJulie Jeffs said…
Hi Millicent,
Welcome to the Bloggers Let’s Make it Work group! So glad you are here. Please visit the discussion New Members Visit Here First, tell us about your blog so we can list it on the members blog index.

I hope you will find, as I did, a great sense of community, loads of information and resources, and an incredible amount of talent.

Jump in on ongoing discussions or start one if there is an issue you would like to discuss.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Look forward to reading your posts.

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I was reading a blog post last week about the benefit of copying as a means of learning something new, such as blogging. A writer named Di Mace was saying, “From copying, you then begin to understand, and from understanding you then start to play…See More
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