Women Writers

Interview with Nancy Miller, Creator and Executive Producer of Saving Grace

Melissa Silverstein | Posted 07.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, Cable, Saving Grace, Writing, Sexism, Holly Hunter, Women Writers, Gender, Entertainment News
Melissa Silverstein

Nancy Miller: "There are few shows about the friendships between women because it's mostly men who buy the shows that air. I just don't think they realize how much fun the dramatic relationships between women can be."

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The Carrie Bradshaw Effect

Courtney E. Martin | Posted 06.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Women, Sex and the City, Sex and the City: The Movie, Writing, Emily Gould, Vanity Fair, New York Times Magazine, Women Writers, Media News
Courtney E. Martin

Post-Carrie, we can't turn a page, web or paper, without reading about a young woman over-sharing details about her love life, while male writers dominate the "thought leader" magazines.

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Doris Lessing: Nobelist

Erica Jong | Posted 10.11.2007 | Media

Read More: Innovation, Creativity, Nobel Prize, Women Writers, Political Writing, Philip Roth, Doris Lessing, Media News
Erica Jong

They could have given it to Philip Roth for paeans to his penis. But, amazingly, the Nobel committee decided to recognize a woman writer whose work has opened up the female soul to literary scrutiny.

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