Nicola Griffith

Writer. Queer cripple with a PhD. Seattle & Leeds.

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My Story, Mystery: A Letter to Hild of Whitby

“You were magnificent, I think, but hidden: a black hole at the heart of history. We can trace you only by your gravitational pull.” This essay first appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, September 2015.

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Posted on June 6, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in 1-essays

The Women You Didn’t See: A Letter to Alice Sheldon

“You were brilliant, I think, but consumed by the inevitability of the abattoir. In your fiction all the gates are closed; characters are funnelled down a chute to flashing knives.” Epistolatory criticism first published 2015.

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Posted on May 31, 2016 by Nicola Griffith in 1-essays

My story, mystery: my love letter to Hild of Whitby

You were magnificent, I think, but hidden: a black hole at the heart of history. We can trace you only by your gravitational pull…

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Posted on September 10, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

New essay: The Women You Didn’t See

Up at the Los Angeles Review of Books my essay, “The Women You Didn’t See.” Epistolatory criticism and a meditation on gender.

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Posted on July 9, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Books about women don’t win awards: solutions

The skewed publishing landscape is fixable. The key is data, masses of data. It will need many hands.

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Posted on May 28, 2015 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The gentrification of lesbian fiction

The Los Angles Review of Books has an interesting piece by Emily Douglas on Sarah Schulman’s latest, The Gentrification of the Mind….

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Posted on June 8, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Los Angeles Review of Books

Today the Los Angeles Review of Books went live. And it’s gorgeous: From the About page: The Los Angeles Review of Books…

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Posted on April 18, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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