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Precious and Painful

Esther Iverem | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment

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Esther Iverem

In Precious, director Lee Daniels returns to the formula that has won him acclaim in the past: stories of poor Black women who are too pathetic, sick and incapable of caring for themselves or their children.

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This Writer's Life: Why Write Memoir When Fiction is So Much More Respectable?

Rebecca Walker | Posted 11.19.2009 | Books

Read More: Irene Vilar, Writers, Writing Memoir, James Frey, Writing, Authors, Alice Walker, Books, Memoir, Fiction, Memoirists, Books News
Rebecca Walker

I love the form and feel it is mine the way others feel poetry or the short story is theirs, but memoir is still seen as the first cousin of the tabloid, is it not?

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Oprah On Book That Inspired Precious: "A Modern-Day Color Purple"

AP | ALICIA QUARLES | Posted 12.01.2009 | Books

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TORONTO — Oprah Winfrey was so taken by Sapphire's novel "Push" that she read it more than once. Yet even though the talk-show host has made be...

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Chicago's Women & Children Inspires Three Decades of Writers and Readers

Gina Frangello | Posted 11.29.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Women’s Voices Fund, Publishing Industry, Chicago Writers, Books, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, Feminist Bookstores, Margaret Atwood, Women & Children First, Maya Angelou, Bookstores, Chicago Authors, Adrienne Rich, Women and Children First, Chicago News
Gina Frangello

By the early 1990s, there were more than 100 feminist bookstores in the U.S. Now, after the explosion of chain bookstores and a changing political climate, there are a mere seven remaining.

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Better Angels: The Inauguration of Barack Obama

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Gates, Rick Warren, Obama Inauguration Day, Obama Inauguration, Alice Walker, Barack Obama Inauguration, Barack Obama Huffington Post, Huffpost Inauguration, Bill Richardson, Barack Obama, Politics News
Geoffrey Dunn

As Obama takes his oath of office on Tuesday, may he and this country be guided by those "better angels" upon whom Lincoln called. If ever there were a president who was capable of being so blessed, it is he.

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Renowned Women Speak Out on Palin and the Election

Marianne Schnall | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Feminism, Sarah Palin, Election, 2008 Presidential Election, Women, Melissa Etheridge, Amy Richards, Loung Ung, Gloria Steinem, Kathy Najimy, Jody Williams, Kim Gandy, Gloria Feldt, Deborah Siegel, Marie Wilson, Courtney Martin, Sabel Allende, Eleanor Smeal, Eve Ensler, Alice Walker, Elizabeth Lesser, Joan Blades, Politics News
Marianne Schnall

I decided to pose identical questions by email to dynamic women -- Melissa Etheridge, Gloria Steinem, Eve Ensler and more -- to just see what kind of responses would come in.

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