Irene Vilar

The Abortion Addict

Carol Hoenig | Posted 11.10.2009 | Books

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I could not understand how one woman made the decision to have fifteen abortions in as many years. As a pro-choice supporter, this disturbed me.

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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

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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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Irene Vilar, Abortion Addict Speaks

The Huffington Post | Irene Vilar | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

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At what point when trying to get a book published and failing at it does one say let's shelve the damned thing? The evening I got a status report summ...

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Irene Vilar: Self-described "Abortion Addict" Confesses To 15 Procedures

National Post | Mary Vallis | Posted 12.03.2009 | Books

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Fifty one rejection letters -- that is the number Irene Vilar received before she finally found someone to publish a tale so extreme it would surely b...