Tag: women

  • Cherries and Gems in Eat It: Sex, Food and Women’s Writing

    Cherries and Gems in Eat It: Sex, Food and Women’s Writing

    Reviewed in this essay: Eat It: Sex, Food & Women’s Writing, edited by Nicole Baute and Brianna Goldberg. Feathertale, 2013. There are some gems in this mixed-genre anthology from Feathertale, an offbeat Canadian writer’s collective. The pieces are varied in tone and style, taking the form of short fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, letters, and poetry.…

  • The Nightmare: On Life is About Losing Everything

    The Nightmare: On Life is About Losing Everything

    Reviewed in this essay: Life is About Losing Everything by Lynn Crosbie. House of Anansi, 2012. Last year I wrote a blog post about how rotten I felt getting older. I laid bare my fear of being alone and acknowledged losing the power that youth gives women. I quoted Anne Sexton: “Live or die, but…