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Autobiography and MemoirNovember 24, 2021
Diane di Prima and the Dream of the East Village Avant-Garde
The poet’s recently released memoir of the 1960s, Spring and Autumn Annals, is an essential document in the history of New York’s downtown art scene.
Lynne Feeley
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Books and IdeasMay 26, 2020
The Forgotten Women’s Arts Fellowship That Forged a New Way of Writing
Maggie Doherty’s The Equivalents tells the story of the Bunting Institute, which played a foundational role in the works of Anne Sexton, Maxine Kumin, Tillie Olsen, and more.
Lynne Feeley
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Books and IdeasNovember 25, 2019
The Overlooked Women of Black Mountain College
A new anthology of poems shows how those who tell the story of the North Carolina avant-garde institution have continued to exclude the school’s women artists.
Lynne Feeley
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Climate ChangeSeptember 10, 2019
Naomi Klein Knows a Green New Deal Is Our Only Hope Against Climate Catastrophe
In her new book, Klein argues that our current crisis cannot be separated from a long history and brutal present of human exploitation.
Lynne Feeley
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HistoryFebruary 26, 2019
White Women Prospered on the Brutality of the Slave Economy
Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers’s new book is a definitive account of how deeply invested white women were in slavery in the South.
Lynne Feeley