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Sound of the City (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
For me, the issue is, who can do the job—not the job of being president but the job of cleaning up after Bush and Cheney. The work that must be done to clean up the mess left after eight years of anti-government government is enormous, and as a lifelong Democrat, I am appalled that once again it will take a Democrat to repair Republican excess.
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The New York Observer (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
If you thought Fashion Week was a vile display of narcissism, catfights, and bitch slaps, wait till you get a dose of the Brooklyn Book Festival ! Towering, tufted tweedy-birds—such as Jonathans Lethem and Franzen , Dorothy Allison , Joan Didion , Richard Price, A. M. Homes , and Russell Banks —somehow got suckered into hauling their tired asses out of bed on a Sunday for this bash, where they compete...
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The Gowanus Lounge (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
The schedule for the Brooklyn Book Festival, which is coming up on Sunday, September 14 fromm 10AM-6PM at Borough Hall has been released. Some of those who will be participating include Joan Didion, Richard Price, Jonathan Lethem, Dorothy Allison, Russell Banks, A.M. Homes, George Pelecanos, Terry McMillan, Jonathan Franzen, Susan Choi, Esmeralda Santiago, Thurston Moore, [...]
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(en)Gender (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Femmes are having a conference in Chicago in August - hey, did anyone think about how much that’s going to suck for people who wear makeup? - and speaking: Dorothy Allison & Julia Serano, amongst others. From their Mission Statement: “We are using this term (femme) to specifically and intentionally include lesbians and same-gender-loving women as [...]
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One Tenacious Baby Mama (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Leatherfolk is one of my favourite anthologies. I picked it up off my shelf when I went looking for "Doing it for Daddy" and realized I must have lent it to someone who never gave it back. Oh darn. In any case, I love Dorothy Allison's writing. She puts bits and pieces together in her writing in ways that have been really influential for me. The way she writes mess, emotion, sex, politics and history...
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Windows Toward the World (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
“Understand me. What I am here for is to tell you stories you may not want to hear. What I am here for is to rescue my dead. And to scare hell out of you now and then. I was raised Baptist, I know how to do that.” – Dorothy Allison Emphasis [...]
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Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
“Death changes everything.” Dorothy Allison’s Cavedweller completely blew my mind. Attempting to continue my challenge of reading books I already own, I asked my partner to pick out a book for me. With completely different literary tastes and his partiality for non-fiction and poetry, I knew he would approach the selection with a different criterion than [...]
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Meta Watershed (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Jan Clausen called lesbian-feminism of my era "a movement of poets", and she was assuredly right. Here's a partial list of who I and my friends were reading, talking about, quoting, going to see perform, and being shaped by: Paula Gunn Allen Dorothy Allison Alta Ellen Marie Bissert Karen Brodine Olga Broumas Rita Mae Brown Chrystos Cheryl Clarke Jan Clausen Martha Courtot Judy Grahn Susan Griffin...
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where the revolution's gonna begin (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
i'll start this post the same way i started this post , last month: new memories are fuckin' hard. (seriously? new memories every month? is this going to become a trend? 'cause i'm not sure i'm really up for that.) with that said, on to "family." i was reading a piece in Skin , Dorothy Allison's collection of essays, today. her keynote from OutWrite 1992, "Survival is the Least of My Desires." i think...
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Bluestalking Reader (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
" Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that to go on living I have to tell stories, that stories are the one sure way I know to...
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NewPages Blog (Free subscription) | 01/24/2008
Tin House Summer Writers Workshop '08 Reed College, Portland, OR July 13 - 20, 2008 One-week writing intesnive: workshops, readings, seminars, panels in fiction, non-fiction, poetry. Faculty and Guests: Dorothy Allison, Steve Almond, Mary Jo Bang, Andrea Barrett, Aimee Bender, Frank Bidart, Charles D'Ambrosio, Anthony Doerr, Nick Flynn, Denis Johnson, Walter Kirn, Yiyun Li, Eileen Myles, Peter
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Social Media (Free subscription) | 12/31/2007
Just launched: Red Room -- where the writers are. Quite the quality list of authors -- Jane Smiley, Norman Mailer, Dorothy Allison, Po Bronson, Amy Tan, Alice Walker (above), Tobias Wolff -- though it's not clear how many of them have anything to do with the site at this early...
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Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 10/29/2007
According to a bio that follows Dorothy Allison's gravy recollections, she’s working on a new novel, She Who. (Thanks, Dana.)
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The View From Here (Free subscription) | 10/01/2007
Last January, I got to spend a weekend with one of my favorite people, author Dorothy Allison. Other than getting the guest house all freshened up for her, I had only light duties, which included fixing Shrimp & Grits for a girls’ dinner party. Dorothy is from South Carolina (remember, her watershed novel is BASTARD OUT OF [...]
