Presque vu XXXXV

24th February 2008 with 0 Comments

Jason Chervokas on NewCritics really likes Sheryl Crow’s new album, Detours. But:
Sheryl Crow’s music is the sound of soccer mom nation. It’s not just the kind of music your mother would like, it’s the kind of music your mother would make (and maybe does at the local weekly coffee house in the church basement): [...]

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Women at Work

19th February 2008 with 4 Comments

Sexism in the workplace, circa 1943

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About Writing:

I am afraid when I sit down to write. Sometimes the sweat runs out of me. If you work regularly every day, as I try to do, the fear subsides. But it is never far away. Self expression is no reason for writing. The task is to make a work of art and, in so doing, to say something. Pity for the poets who have no subject save themselves. Christopher Logue

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