The New York Times Book Review assigned a cover review in June to a book called A Short History of Women. Woohoo! Except that the book is actually A Short History of Women... A Novel, by fiction writer Kate Walbert. What happens when a history of women gets presented as a novel?
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This week: Kate Walbert, author of the novel "A Short History of Women"; Paul Barrett on the Wall Street implosion; Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Read Post
In the latest edition of the Double X Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, Hanna Rosin, and New Yorker writer Margaret Talbot talk about Kate Walbert's new novel, A Short History of Women, which Linda Hirshman critqued on Double X on Monday, and... Read Post
Do women novelists work in "miniature"? This was the question posed by the cover piece in the New York Times Book Revie w this weekend. The piece was a review of Kate Walbert's A Short History of Women, a novel that offers a canny f... Read Post