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Our Top Five Picks from Miami Book Fair International

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Most authors aren’t good at reading their own books. This maxim, delivered so astutely and simply (and hilariously) by Adam Gopnik during his delightful appearance Thursday at megafest Miami Book Fair International, really can’t be stressed enough. Gopnik is probably an exception, judging from his storytelling — though I can’t be sure since he didn’t [...]

Q&A: Naomi Wolf Talks Vagina, Careless Critiques, and Self-Censorship in the Feminist Community; Appears at Miami Book Fair Saturday

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Naomi Wolf’s latest, Vagina, has gotten mixed — sometimes very mad — reviews both in seasoned critical circles and the blogosphere. Wolf, veteran feminist and Beauty Myth author, will appear at the Miami Book Fair on Saturday, so we caught up with her to chat about the book, which has performed steadily according to several [...]

The Great Poondoggle: Does Naomi Wolf’s “Vagina” Point to Problems in Feminism?

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Naomi Wolf’s Vagina was released last week to seemingly more critical flak than fanfare. Concisely, Wolf’s cultural history of cunt, which employs lots of personal anecdotes, argues that a mind-vagina connection exists. For Wolf, scientific developments suggest that our ladyparts directly affect our ladybrains and that treating women and their, er, “yonis” like “goddesses” has [...]