Tag: Essays
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Reading: Molly Ringwald Revisits “The Breakfast Club”
I’m hoping to get back into more or less regular blogging by highlighting some of my favorite reads, both on- and offline. When I was a teen, The Breakfast Club was a favorite among my set of friends. My girlfriends and I had a choice of dreamy bad boy or dreamy jock for crush material–no one thought…
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Recommended Reading: Men Explain Things to Me
You may think Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit’s short collection of essays (including the one that helped spawn the term “man-splaining”), is necessary reading for women, and you’d be right. But it’s also a great read for all creative types. When I first started reading these essays, I felt angry. That’s okay; I’m used…
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But is she alive?
Just posted a new essay: But is she alive? Gillian Flynn and the “unlikable” female character
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Gothic horror: We’re all mad here | Noir Femme
I try to define gothic fiction and why I love it so much: Gothic horror: We’re all mad here | Noir Femme
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A Kinder, Gentler Apocalypse: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
I discuss a less brutal and, I think, more realistic approach to the post-apocalyptic novel in this essay.
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Horror is a feeling, not a genre
Yes, I’ve started a new blog project called Noir Femme. This one is kind of a sister project to Sci Femme, about women writing horror and dark fiction, as opposed to science fiction. But before I could get started on the reading, I had to identify (for myself, anyway) exactly what horror is. Here’s my…
Shannon Turlington 