women

A Negative Score on the Happiness List: The Economics of Hustling in Bonnie Bremser’s For Love of Ray

Bonnie Bremser’s road book For Love of Ray gives a harrowing account of the effects of poverty on travellers. Poverty…

10 years ago

Joyce Johnson’s Novels Available From Open Road Media

Joyce Johnson is best-known for her 1983 memoir, Minor Characters, which focuses on the years 1957-58, and concerns the role…

11 years ago

Women and the Beat Generation: Literature, Art, Film

Conference at the University of Agder, Norway, September 2-4 2013 Organizers: Frida Forsgren and Michael J. Prince Keynote Speakers: Mary…

13 years ago

Kerouac’s Quiff

In Jack Kerouac’s book Vanity of Duluoz he refers to women as quiffs, which in my estimation, is too close…

14 years ago

Women of the Beat Generation

History has not been kind to the women of the Beat Generation. During the Beat era, they were largely ignored…

18 years ago

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