Some Favorite Writers: Literature & Gender
- This is a past program
Women read more fiction than men. Women write more fiction than men. But are women fairly represented in modern literary criticism and the publishing world? Carmen Giménez Smith of VIDA – an organization working to increase critical attention to contemporary women’s writing and gender inequality in literary culture – will lead a discussion with four of the most influential women writers in the country: Elaine Blair, Ruth Franklin, Michelle Huneven, and Mona Simpson.
Some Favorite Writers
This series of readings is organized by Mona Simpson, the author of Casebook, My Hollywood, Anywhere But Here, and Off Keck Road. Readings are followed by discussions with Simpson.
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Elaine Blair -
Michelle Huneven -
Ruth Franklin -
Carmen Giménez Smith
This series is supported, in part, by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English.
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