Caroline Leavitt
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| Blog Name: | Caroline Leavitt |
| Url: | http://www.carolineleavittville.blogspot.com |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | novelist, screenwriter, book critic |
| Description: | I'm an award-winning novelist (Latest is Girls in Trouble and my 9th novel Breathe is coming out from Algonquin Books in 2010). I'm also a screenwriter and book columnist for The Boston Globe and Dame Magazine as well as a book critic for People. I ruminate about the writing life, have author interviews, and generally obsess about everything from politics to knitting. |
| Popularity: | 14 Followers |
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Totally swamped. Writing constantly. Finishing a script (gave myself a 6 week deadline), pushing forward on a new novel I'm calling The Missing Ones and in the mi
Totally swamped. Writing constantly. Finishing a script (gave myself a 6 week deadline), pushing forward on a new novel I'm calling The Missing Ones and in the mi
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So, wait, are you telling me women can't write?
So PW's Best Books of 2009 included no women. Fancy that. At She Writes, there's a nifty piece about why this is more of the same old tired mindset. You know the drill: Women don't write BIG books, only men do. Women write domestic dramas (Hello? Jonathan Franzen and The Corrections ring a bell? He was touted for what women have been doing for centuries.) Must we women take on men's names like George Elliot to be appreciated? ( Carl Leavitt doesn't suit me.)Sigh and alas.
So PW's Best Books of 2009 included no women. Fancy that. At She Writes, there's a nifty piece about why this is more of the same old tired mindset. You know the drill: Women don't write BIG books, only men do. Women write domestic dramas (Hello? Jonathan Franzen and The Corrections ring a bell? He was touted for what women have been doing for centuries.) Must we women take on men's names like George Elliot to be appreciated? ( Carl Leavitt doesn't suit me.)Sigh and alas.
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