The gift of a negative review
Part of a critic’s job is to offer an expert, informed opinion of art. Keyword: informed. We need disabled critics to review disabled art.
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The Mother in speculative fiction
Adrienne Rich said that cathexis about the mother-daughter relationship is “the great unwritten story” in US and UK fiction. By this she didn’t mean women don’t write about it, but that literary critics don’t. This is particularly true in the genre of speculative fiction.
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learning to take it
Over at Sterling Editing, Kelley is talking about how it is to learn, as a writer, to take criticism. She is also…
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Some of you may already have read the essay I wrote with Kelley, “War Machine, Time Machine,” which was first published in…
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