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Women and Hollywood
Melissa Silverstein is the founder and editor of Women and Hollywood, one of the most respected sites for issues related to women and film as well as other areas of pop culture. Women and Hollywood educates, advocates, and agitates for gender parity across the entertainment industry. She is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of The Athena Film Festival. The 4th annual festival will take place from February 6-9, 2014 at Barnard College in NYC. Melissa recently published the first book from Women and Hollywood, In Her Voice: Women Directors Talk Directing, which is a compilation of over 40 interviews that have appeared on the site.Email Melissa
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Watch This: Lauren Graham on her New YA Novel and Parenthood
Watch the insanely charming Lauren Graham talk about her new YA novel, Someday, Someday, Maybe, about a young woman who is trying to make it on Broadway in the 90s.
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- May 20, 2013 1:15 PM
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Guest Post: Bold Broads and Daring Dames: An Interview with Kim Krizan
Kim Krizan is an Academy Award-nominated writer of the films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. She appeared as an actress in the films Slacker, Dazed and Confused, and Waking Life. She wrote the critically-acclaimed graphic novel Zombie Tales: 2061. Kim earned a Master's degree in literature and became an Anais Nin scholar. She teaches creative writing classes for UCLA Extension. Kim recently released her first book, Original Sins: Trade Secrets of the Femme Fatale (Los Angeles 2013).
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- May 17, 2013 10:08 AM
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Novelist Claire Messud Schools Publishers Weekly
Claire Messud's latest novel, The Woman Upstairs, has been getting a ton of great critical buzz (and was also in the recent women's fiction satire video Ron Charles released). In an interview with Publishers Weekly, Messud is asked about the likeability of her main character Nora. She completely calls out the interviewer--illuminating the sexism in a question that would not be posed to a male author in that way or asked at all.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- May 8, 2013 11:45 AM
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Watch This: Ron Charles "Explains" Women's Fiction
Watch The Washington Post's book critic, Ron Charles hilariously satirize the idea of "women's fiction." He brings light to the sexism embedded within criticism and the truly horrendous VIDA statistics.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- April 26, 2013 11:15 AM
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Zadie Smith on Granta and Women's Prize for Fiction Lists
The truly great Zadie Smith is up for the Women's Prize for Fiction for her most recent novel, NW. Smith is also on Granta's 2013 list of the 20 most promising British authors under 40--a list that this year is primarily women and is including authors of diverse backgrounds.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- April 17, 2013 10:01 AM
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Heroine of the Day: Deborah Copaken Kogan
Yesterday a shit bomb was dropped on the internet in the form of an essay by photographer/TV producer/novelist Deborah Copaken Kogan entitled My So-Called Post Feminist Life in Arts and Letters which was posted on the Nation's website.
- By Melissa Silverstein
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- April 11, 2013 2:00 PM
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Pamela Paul Named Editor of The New York Times Book Review
Pamela Paul has been named the the new editor of the The New York Times Book Review section succeeding Sam Tanenhaus. She is the 20th book review editor and only second female after Rebecca Sinkler who ran the section from 1989-1995.
- By Melissa Silverstein and Kerensa Cadenas
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- April 11, 2013 10:00 AM
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Women and Hollywood Heads to Chicago
I just wanted to give a heads up to any readers in the Chicago area.
- By Melissa Silverstein
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- April 9, 2013 1:00 PM
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VIDA, Women in Literary Arts Releases 2012 VIDA Count
This morning VIDA released their 2012 count of the treatment of women in literature over the last year and the results vary widly. Amy King, on behalf of VIDA was curious to see if the numbers reflected the already regressive treatment of women thus far in 2013. King wants to hold those accountable, but not at the risk to women writers.
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- March 4, 2013 3:48 PM
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Countdown to 2014: Amy Poehler is Writing a Book
Get your phone alerts ready, Amy Poehler is writing a book that will drop in 2014. This should also be known as your new favorite book of all time. Poehler signed with It Books, an imprint of Harper Collins and will be writing an “illustrated, nonlinear diary full of humor and honesty and brimming with true stories, fictional anecdotes and life lessons.”
- By Kerensa Cadenas
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- January 30, 2013 10:00 AM
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