A few of SRB Editor Amy Martin’s favorite books and shows featuring complicated, unruly, messy women.
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Amy R. Martin is a creative producer/screenwriter and essayist. Her personal and flash essays have appeared in several literary magazines. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction and stage- and screenwriting from the Queens University of Charlotte, and she lives with her husband and four children in Vienna, Virginia.
Capturing “what it is like to live beside, beneath, above, near, and among others”: Lydia Davis’ “Our Strangers”
A review of Lydia Davis’ new collection, “Our Strangers.”
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Story Collection Blends the Venn Diagram Between “Weird” and “Feminist”
“As If She Had A Say” uses magical realism and fantastical elements to critique patriarchy in this genre-bending collection.
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Not a Monolith, but a Multiplicity
A review of “Southern Storytellers,” a documentary series on contemporary Southern artists on PBS.
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“We Are Too Many” Beckons Women Not to Hide
“We Are Too Many” by Hannah Pittard is a genre-busting memoir investigating the failure of her marriage after her husband has an affair with her best friend.
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Reenvisioning Shakespeare with Peter Brook’s “Tip of the Tongue”
A review of “Tip of the Tongue: Reflections on Language and Meaning” by Peter Brook.
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Cursed Dolls, Horror, and Laugh-out-Loud Comedic Moments
Grady Hendrix’s “How to Sell a Haunted House” is a good old-fashioned ghost story, a gothic thrill ride.
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Examining the Art of the Short Story in “Arranging Stories”
Heather A. Fox examines how white women writers in the South ordered their short story collections to say something about historical events, society or politics in the midst of a racist and male-dominated publishing era.
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Sometimes Marriage is Mayhem
Staff Picks: Thrillers and Marriage
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“Woman Without Shame” Showcases Sandra Cisneros at the Height of Her Power
A review of Sandra Cisneros’ latest book, “Woman Without Shame,” — her first poetry collection in three decades.
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