Published : Nov 03, 2022 10:15 IST That life and fiction draw on each other is common knowledge. After Sappho By Selby Wynn Schwartz Picador India Pages: 288 Price: Rs.499 This “we” admits that above all, it was Sappho who inspired and guided their efforts: “We had begun so long ago with our poems after Sappho, carefully styled in fragments, …
Selby Wynn Schwartz, in her debut, dares to envision the possibilities and chaotic selves of the twentieth-century women, sometimes queer. ‘It was what X was not.’ She writes on women’s fantasies and actions that didn’t desire young men or their ‘hot breaths’ at the time, contrariwise - associate and companion. It centres on the Italian poet Lina Poletti, who ‘has …
There are eight pages listed under “misogyny” in the index of Mary Honeyball’s biography Edith Summerskill: The Life and Times of a Pioneering Feminist Labour MP. Access All Areas is a captivating read and will leave you in no doubt why Madonna told Charone, “You f***in’ rule.” Novels by Frankie Boyle, Jessica Andrews, Lillian Fishman and Selby Wynn Schwartz, along …
