Tag: The Guardian

• Literary elephantiasis…

  Recently, I attended a panel discussion of local writers on something entirely unrelated when one of them said something that confirmed a suspicion I already had. He said that an editor had actually asked him to shove 10,000 more words into his manuscript. Apparently, long books look more substantial on bookstore shelves, so I guess it…

  Shannon Turlington

  April 4, 2016

  Notebook

  Long books, Reading, Reading list, Robert McCrum, The Goldfinch, The Guardian

• Subvert the dominant paradigm: link roundup

  Here’s a roundup of online reading I’ve been doing lately around issues fo diversity, gender equality, and culture change. Enjoy! Why gender equality is good for everyone — a very interesting TED talk by Michael Kimmel. Twofer from the New York Times this Sunday — when can women stop looking perfect? (hint: now) and it’s payback time…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 11, 2016

  Notebook

  Angry White Men, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Atlantic, Basic guaranteed income, Brigid Schulte, Conference panels, Daily Life, Diversity, Emma Paling, Feminism, Gender equality, Harper’s, Huffington Post, Jennifer Weiner, Judith Shulevitz, Lauren Bacon, Laurie Penny, Michael Kimmel, Motherhood, New Stateman, Normalizing, Pinup calendars, Quartz, Rebecca Solnit, Sexism, Shonda Rhimes, Star Wars, Subvert the dominant paradigm, TED Talks, Television, The Guardian, Wikipedia, Women, Work

• Margaret Atwood: we are double-plus unfree

  Our governments now treat us like cattle – governed by fear, we have surrendered too many of our hard-won freedoms. It’s time to recapture the territory we’ve ceded Source: Margaret Atwood: we are double-plus unfree | Books | The Guardian Margaret Atwood is one of my personal heroes.

  Shannon Turlington

  September 24, 2015

  Notebook

  Fear, Freedom, Government, Margaret Atwood, The Guardian