Anastasia Smith: 24, sisterless and searching.
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I AM LUCKY ENOUGH to have become good friends here at graduate school with a bonified Jane Austen nerd. (Hello, former English majors!) When I am a mess over school or weepy about love sagas, this friend of mine always listens to my gripes and then pauses thoughtfully, before saying something to the effect of: “It sounds like you need some more Jane in your life.” (Yes, this is her proposed remedy for everything.) [click to continue…]
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Bishop with her poet BFF Robert Lowell
THROUGHOUT HER LIFE, poet Elizabeth Bishop refused to be anthologized with only women writers or only queer writers, insisting that her work needed to stand apart from any singular component of her infinite identities. I love this about Bishop, and I love her work, and when I think of my favorite writers who embody a kind of intangible womanness (sorry, Elizabeth), I always think of her. So in Bishop’s honor, I’d like to open the floor to your favorite women poets and fictioneers (only because my sister Marion, has the nonfiction corner covered). [click to continue…]
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BIG SISTER, DIRT-MONGER, WILD CAT-TAMER, plant-lover, bigtime blogger, partner in insanity (um, trust me I know about this one), pioneeress, surrogate mother, and now tack another roaring head above the proverbial mantel: memoirist! Margaret has written a memoir about leaving her wild corporate job for peace in the, well, wild. I read it on my vacation to Tokyo last month and let me tell you, [click to continue…]
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AS I WIND DOWN my last semester of graduate school and the wide expanse of adulthood opens before me, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about money. (And apparently everyone else in the world is, too!) Of course, how to save it. But I’m also constantly catching myself thinking about how I’m going to spend it (once I get it, that is). So I thought it appropriate to post this week about the book Obsessive Consumption by Kate Bingaman-Burt, in which she has illustrated every purchase she made over three years. [click to continue…]
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THIS YEAR’S “5 Under 35″ fiction selections from The National Book Foundation features works from four women writers! How exciting! I must admit that last month, I was quite disappointed to read a Huffington Post article that labeled a whole slew of amazing female writers as “overrated.” So it’s great to see that some female literary fiction is getting good press, too. Have you read any of these books? (And if so, how did they rate?) I haven’t yet, but they’re currently on their way to the top of my to-read list.
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FROM TIME TO TIME I love posting on here about sister-themed books ( um, no I’m not talking about Sweet Valley High) that I’ve come across and enjoyed, because it always starts a juicy dialogue about what everyone has been reading lately. My current recommendation? [click to continue…]
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I‘VE NEVER BEEN ONE FOR light and fluffy summer reads. So as summer 2009 begins to unfold, I’m offering a few book suggestions with the theme of women’s rights and feminism. But take note brother(s): While these picks may be gynocentric, they are definitely not just for the ladies. [click to continue…]
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SOME YEARS AGO, when I read Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel The Namesake, I was struck by the relationship that the book’s main character, Gogol, has with his younger sister, Sonia. I say this as a younger sister to a brother, as you may already know. I love the way Lahiri’s narrative ebbs and flows, revealing the events of Gogol’s life without sensationalizing them. Here, she writes about Gogol’s first time seeing Sonia: [click to continue…]
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MY BIG BROTHER (AND OUR SILLY HATS).
First time here? Here's the idea: The Sister Project is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in friendship or in feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top on our homepage says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.