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Literary critic + feminist historian, author HOTBED & THE EXTRA WOMAN. Board member @bookcritics, words all over. thepleasureof.substack.com.

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Joanna Scutts’s Biography

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Writer, editor, curator. Author of "The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It," forthcoming November 2017 from Liveright/W.W. Norton. Researcher and curator at Center for Women's History, New-York Historical Society.

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Fascist Sympathies: On Dorothea Brande | The Nation

Fascist Sympathies: On Dorothea Brande | The Nation

In the mid-1930s, slumped deep in economic depression and faced with ever-worsening news from Europe, America…

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There are Two Worlds: Roxana Robinson's "Sparta" -

There are Two Worlds: Roxana Robinson's "Sparta" -

EARLIER THIS YEAR, it was reported that the suicide rate among US military veterans had jumped to 22 per day,…

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'The Last of the Doughboys' by Richard Rubin

'The Last of the Doughboys' by Richard Rubin

The 100th anniversary of a war means the snapping of a thread: Even those miraculous few survivors who sneake…

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'The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters' by Anthony Pagden

'The Enlightenment: And Why It Still Matters' by Anthony Pagden

In Anthony Pagden's sweeping new study, the Enlightenment constitutes a collective intellectual journey away …

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Fragments of War

Fragments of War

Joanna Scutts reviews Shrapnel, by William Wharton. Shrapnel wounds haphazardly—it can glance off the surfac…

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Three new novels about Zelda Fitzgerald

Three new novels about Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Sayre was 17 when she met Scott Fitzgerald, a green-eyed Yankee from Princeton, at a military ball in M…

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Joanna Scutts — A Writer in Paris

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This is not really about Dwight Garner’s recent lament in the New York Times for the ever-disappearing book review, but since that piece did the rounds I’ve been thinking how strange it must be to be one of a handful of critics left standing in the field that was once a forest. Looking only at absence, it must be hard to see the presence, in new shapes and unexpected places, of an eager conversation. If the definition loosens, how many reviews, on this platform alone, did Famesick get?
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The Loneliness of A Room of One’s Own

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12 hours ago They are so far out of sight for us, creatures of the upper world, that we don’t readily think of them. But as soon as we do, as soon as we plunge the mind into the cold dark hummus to which the body will one day return, they become a spell against despair and a consecration of all that is …
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The Loneliness of A Room of One’s Own

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Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own" emphasizes the importance of financial independence and a space for women to create freely. Woolf argues that women need economic stability to pursue creative endeavors without the constraints of societal expectations and male authority. The book challenges the gendered power dynamics in society and literature, advocating for a more inclusive and diverse representation of women's experiences. The part of A Room of One’s Own that everybody knows isn’t buried.
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