It is ironic that the more generous and ecumenical reading habits of women (who are the majority of fiction readers) should diminish the status of writing about women, but that’s institutional patriarchy for you. If women had any idea that just by watching other women play basketball in significant numbers they could really screw TV programming sideways, thousands of years of male dominance would be on shaky ground.
--Kevin Guilfoile, Nox v. Next commentary
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(See also Musee des Beaux Arts ) As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest ...
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As part of Book Blogger Appreciation Week, I'm giving away a paperback UK-version (NOT Claudius's very own 10th birthday copy ) of...
Change that from basketball to football and the sane would be true of the UK as well. Now the question is how to set about it?
ReplyDeleteIsn't it fun following these book playoffs? I'll betcha Freedom wins top slot.
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