Kategoria BISAC: Literary Collections >> Women Authors

The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs. Yet she viewed her most vital work to be the extensive prose fragments, composed for the desk drawer, in which she analyzed herself and other members of the Russian intelligentsia through seven traumatic decades of Soviet history. In this book, the first full-length English-language study of the writer,...

Domestic violence begins with a word and ends with psychological, physical and emotional wounds. Those suffering crave peace of mind and understanding, but often refrain from taking action to escape the situation before it's too late. Through the stories of 9 courageous women, Unsilenced: The Faces of Domestic Violence Survival will assist you in releasing feelings such as anger, shame and guilt; and realizing that your story is your voice and your power.

This book is a guide to empower abused and battered women who are seeking spiritual guidance on how to develop the courage to...

Fiona Helmsley's "My Body Would be The Kindest of Strangers" begins with an epigram from Anne Sexton's "With Mercy for the Greedy" and ends with an essay on the virtues of Courtney Love. In-between, her stories and essays breathe new life into the idea that the things that we are ashamed of often make for the best stories.

Including essays on art and persona, the rejection of the word "victim," and an imagined meeting between Joan Vollmer Burroughs and Patti Smith at the Chelsea Hotel, "My Body Would be the Kindest of Strangers" proves Fiona Helmsley is as deft at turning her gaze...

NEWSWOMEN: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF FRONT-PAGE JOURNALISM is an anthology of stellar work by 17 seventeen great female literary and investigative reporters whose newspaper writing has garnered awards over the past quarter century. Each chapter features a bio, a selected story, and an author's afterwords prepared especially for this book.

A large percentage of college and graduate school journalism students are women. Yet textbooks and resource material available is decidedly male-centric. Working together with the staff of The Riveter, a magazine and website dedicated to long-form...